System.IO.Compression.ZipFile ExtractToDirectory with "overwrite if existing"?

Question

I want to use ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory with a flag overwriteIfExisting, but unfortunately, there is no such parameter.

I saw the github issue on this dated back to 2016 where none of the suggested improvements actually have been made.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/17150

...which is a long discussion, but without a resulting implementation.

Should I use ExtractToFile instead? Then I would need to handle recursion myself, right?

Or is there another zip library I should use instead?

Answer 1

The linked github issue was resolved with a new function overload for ExtractToDirectory, from .NET Core 2.0 onwards.

See the documentation.

public static void ExtractToDirectory (
    string sourceArchiveFileName,
    string destinationDirectoryName,
    Encoding? entryNameEncoding,
    bool overwriteFiles);