Generating zip file using c# code

Question

I want to create zip file from my mvc.net c# application by using the .net framework classes. Please response to me as soon as possible.

I'd go with one of the answers below, but just in case you work in a place where they don't like third party dlls, I'll link to my answer to a similar question earlier today: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3437770/how-to-extract-zip-file-using-dotnet-framework-4-0-without-using-third-party-dlls/3438147#3438147 — Hans Olsson, Aug 09 '10 at 14:33

bsara · Answer 1 · 2013-01-31T23:04:32.827

With .NET 4.5 you can now create zip files really easily using the .NET framework:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
  class Program
  {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      string startPath = @"c:\example\start";
      string zipPath = @"c:\example\result.zip";
      string extractPath = @"c:\example\extract";

      ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(startPath, zipPath);

      ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(zipPath, extractPath);
    }
  }
}

The above code taken directly from Microsoft's documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404280(v=vs.110).aspx

There are other ways of generating compressed files that are further explained on the page linked to above.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 09 '10 at 14:31

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Have you looked into SharpZipLib?

answered Aug 09 '10 at 14:31

FrustratedWithFormsDesigner

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Joshua Evensen · Answer 3 · 2016-03-25T16:39:32.190

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One third party library I've used is http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/

I like it a lot more than SharpZipLib -- SharpZipLib isn't really very intuitively layed out at all.

edited Mar 25 '16 at 16:39

answered Aug 09 '10 at 14:32

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 09 '10 at 14:31

Use external library like this one or this one. For example with DotNetZip you can make a zip file like this:

 using (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile())
 {
     // add this map file into the "images" directory in the zip archive
     zip.AddFile("c:\\images\\personal\\7440-N49th.png", "images");
     // add the report into a different directory in the archive
     zip.AddFile("c:\\Reports\\2008-Regional-Sales-Report.pdf", "files");
     zip.AddFile("ReadMe.txt");
     zip.Save("MyZipFile.zip");
 }

Generating zip file using c# code

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