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Im developing a c# application which has to zip all the content within a directory.. Is this possible?

thanks

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Yes you can.DotNetZip supports adding a Directory to a zip file with the ZipFile.AddDirectory() methods.

To zip up an entire directory, recursively:

using (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile())
{
  zip.UseUnicode= true;  // utf-8
  zip.AddDirectory(@"MyFile");
  zip.Save(ZipFileToCreate);
}
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  • This answer worked for me, however it is important to note that in later versions of .DotNetZip library, the zip.UseUnicode=true line has been deprecated and so that line is no longer needed. – Douglas Timms Jul 08 '15 at 16:04
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See the documentation for class ZipFile at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.zipfile(v=vs.110).aspx.

UPDATE: This class is only available in .NET 4.5, which is not installed as part of Windows 7. You would have to download it from Microsoft.

Francis Litterio
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You can use also SevenZipSharp like so:

SevenZipCompressor compressor = new SevenZipCompressor();
compressor.CompressDirectory(...);
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