Usage of zip compression in my app

[Guest]

My application generates a few text files. I want to use zip compression
(built in Windows XP) to compress these files in my application.
Is it possible?

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

My application generates a few text files. I want to use zip compression
(built in Windows XP) to compress these files in my application.
Is it possible?

I dare say with P/Invoke you *could* use the built-in compression, but
it would almost certainly be easier to use a managed library. .NET 2.0
contains some compression APIs, and SharpZipLib is a more fully
featured one which works on 1.1:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/

 

[Marc Gravell]

System.Compression supports stream compression (GZIP etc), but not the
zip format itself. #ZipLib is a popular 3rd party tool for plugging
this gap, with examples etc on the site. I have used this many times;
it is fast and fairly robust:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/

..Net 3.0 supposedly introduces better support; I haven't used it
myself, so can't comment on how good it is:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/01/CLR-3-ZIP

Marc

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

| My application generates a few text files. I want to use zip compression
| (built in Windows XP) to compress these files in my application.
| Is it possible?

You better use www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/

It's a free (with code) library for handling zip files.

 

[Guest]

Yes, it is free
But even for commercial use?

 

[Guest]

Yes, free for everything. As in "free beer".
Enjoy,
Peter
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Yes, it is free
But even for commercial use?

From the page linked in Ignacio's post:

"Bottom line In plain English this means you can use this library in
commercial closed-source applications."