Zipping/compressing files? - Xtreme Visual Basic Talk

06-03-2005, 05:00 AM

Sonreir

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Zipping/compressing files?

When you right-click a file or directory in Windows XP and the choose the 'Send To' option, there is a sub-option that says 'Compressed (zipped) Folder'.

How can a person access this compression from VB.NET? Is there something already available or is there a call to the API that can be made?

06-10-2005, 07:41 AM

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Anyone?

06-10-2005, 08:44 AM

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I've never heard of anyone hooking into that functionality of the OS. Most of the time I've heard people use SharpZipLib for compression from .NET. It's a free download, and is 100% .NET code so it is the most compatible with framework code.

I've never used it personally, but I've seen it mentioned in quite a few different places.

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