zip compression component

[Michael S]

Hi.

I am wondering if someone could guide me towards a *free* working class,
component or assembly in .NET for zipping files. While googling all I could
find was shareware components and that's a no no for the project I'm
currently involved in.

I must say I was pretty stunned when I realized that there was no support
for compression in the .NET framework, with .NET trying to compete with Java
and all. This is no troll-pun as while I'm hunting for the simple ability to
zip files in .NET; project-management is considering going for Java in this
small project, as (they say), it is more complete.

This may be somewhat off-topic, but if no component can be found, do anyone
know if there is an API for accessing the built-in compression in windows?
If so, I could always create my own component by going unsafe.

Thanks
- Michael S

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I am wondering if someone could guide me towards a *free* working class,
component or assembly in .NET for zipping files. While googling all I could
find was shareware components and that's a no no for the project I'm
currently involved in.

See http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Default.aspx

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

There is one the free controls from componetone in the vb.net
resource kit.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/default.aspx


Ken

 

[Michael S]

Hi.

Thanks Jon and Ken. You guys saved me from a couple of weeks with
jsp-development.

Think I'll go with the zlib wrapper.

Again, Thanks!

- Michael S

 

[Martin Robins]

If you have the full VS installed, there is actually zip support in the J#
libraries (well, it is supposed to support everything that could be done
with VJ++ [but not ja*a ofcourse]); and you can use the j# libaries from
within c# as they are standard .NET assemblies.

 

[mikeb]

Hi.

I am wondering if someone could guide me towards a *free* working class,
component or assembly in .NET for zipping files. While googling all I could
find was shareware components and that's a no no for the project I'm
currently involved in.

I must say I was pretty stunned when I realized that there was no support
for compression in the .NET framework, with .NET trying to compete with Java
and all. This is no troll-pun as while I'm hunting for the simple ability to
zip files in .NET; project-management is considering going for Java in this
small project, as (they say), it is more complete.

This may be somewhat off-topic, but if no component can be found, do anyone
know if there is an API for accessing the built-in compression in windows?
If so, I could always create my own component by going unsafe.

I addition to the SharpZipLib already mentioned, you might want to look
at this article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/ZipCompression/default.aspx