System.IO.Compression VS2005 (Dec Public)

[Guy Rish]

Hoping someone will know...

I'm using the latest VS2005 beta (I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that it
would have the latest lib builds over the earlier MSDN Universal beta) and
I'm trying to use the System.IO.Compression classes.
I'm converting a CF1 project and was hoping to use the Framework's
compression libraries instead of the SharpZipLib libraries. The
documentation states that this namespace is available in CF2 but the
compiler pitches an error. I've looked for additional assemblies to import
but nothing jumps out as containing that namespace.

Is the documentation merely early and not yet actually implemented for CF2?

TIA

rish

 

[Daniel Moth]

The Compression namespace is supposed to be in the System.dll right? I don't
see it in the CF 2.0 bits and have not heard if it will be supported or not.
See if you can find it here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ws1c3xeh.aspx

Incidentally, the latest CF bits are in the November CTP and not the
December. If you do have the December CTP build, can you please let me know
the CF version? I.e. the X in the 2.0.X.0. Thanks.

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Guy Rish]

Daniel,

Thanks for pointing me to the correct page (which answered a few other less
pressing questions I had as well - RTFM).
And the Dec CTP build installed a 2.0.41115 .NET to my machine.

Thanks for the response.

rish

PS.
Catch your blog sometimes - good stuff.

 

[Daniel Moth]

Thanks. That looks like the Full Fx version. I was after the CF version...
if you have that, feel free to let me know or directly add to this entry
here:
http://wiki.opennetcf.org/ow.asp?CompactFrameworkFAQ/DeterminingVersion

I expect the build part to be 4 digits, smaller than 4317

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Guy Rish]

Daniel,

Thanks for your patience. Appearantly I haven't plugged my brain back in
since the holiday break.
I'll post the build number to the wiki later in the day when I get a chance
to run the test (I'm having some strange problems with the VS CTP toolbox
when I'm working with CF forms).

rish

 

[Ilya Tumanov [MS]]

There is no System.IO.Compression in any CF V2 build, sorry.

Best regards,

Ilya

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