Zip a Directory

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How am I able to ZIP a Directory using VB .NET?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

How am I able to ZIP a Directory using VB .NET?

If the purpose of the file is only to store a set of files, I'd prefer to
use CAB, ZIP or a similar file format. This will allow the user to use
other applications to open the file too.

Microsoft Cabinet Software Development Kit
<URL:http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;310618>

You can build CAB files using the "MAKECAB.EXE" utility that is IIRC
included in Windows. For extracting CAB files, you can use Microsoft's
"EXTRACT.EXE", which is available on the Windows XP CD or as part of the
Windows XP Support Tools:

<URL:http://groups.google.de/[email protected]>

Alternative you can use p/invoke on 'SetupIterateCabinet'. A VB6 sample can
be found here:

View and Extract CAB File Contents Programmatically
<URL:http://www.thescarms.com/vbasic/CabExplorer.asp>

The Zip, GZip, BZip2 and Tar Implementation For .NET
<URL:http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/>

The VB.NET Resource Kit contains zipping functionality too (note that the
Resource Kit is not available any more, so the answer applies for the case
that you already have a copy of the Resource Kit):

The Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/>

It contains ComponentOne Zip for .NET:

ComponentOne Zipâ„¢ for .NET
<URL:http://www.componentone.com/product...3569&SubCategoryTypeID=0&TabMapID=57&TabID=70>

Using J#'s zip functionality:

Using the Zip Classes in the J# Class Libraries to Compress Files and Data
with C#
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/zipcompression/>

..NET 2.0 will contain ZIP support too.

 

[AlexL [Xceed]]

How am I able to ZIP a Directory using VB .NET?

Using Xceed Zip for .NET's QuickZip static shortcut method, you need
can do stuff like that with one line of code:

QuickZip.Zip( "d:\test.zip", True, True, False, "c:\FilesToZip\*")

(the parameters in this particular overload of the Zip method are:
zipFilename, replaceExistingFiles, recursive, preservePaths,
filesToZip)

http://www.xceedsoft.com/products/zipnet

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Alex Leblanc
Xceed Software Inc.
http://www.xceedsoft.com

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[Landi]

How am I able to ZIP a Directory using VB .NET?

Check out ziplib at www.ziplib.com

 

[Landi]

Sorry, That used to be a valid address back in the day
Check this one instead:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Default.aspx