Iterate and Extract Cabinet File

But in c++ using simple extrac32.exe to extract cab file.
by using extrac32.exe is not possible to extract cab in c#.
if you know please reply for this.

This error occurs when the SetupIterateCabinet function is called, if there is more than one folder in the path.

(works) xxx.cab
(works) foldername\xxx.cab
(fails) foldername\foldername\xxx.cab
(fails) C:\\foldername\xxx.cab

I am using XP Pro/SP3 and VS 2008.

Thanks a looot, you saved our lives! Wink | ;)

For anybody interested, here's the essence of the code (I needed only ExtractAll):

1) Keep APIWrapper.cs and TCabinetFile.cs _only_

2) Overwrite TCabinetFile.cs with this:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace CabinetFile
{

   public class TCabinetFile
   {
      /// <summary>
      /// The FileCallback callback function is used by a number of the setup functions. The PSP_FILE_CALLBACK type defines a pointer to this callback function. FileCallback is a placeholder for the application-defined function name.
      /// Platform SDK: Setup API
      /// </summary>
      private uint CallBack(uint context, uint notification, IntPtr param1, IntPtr param2)
      {
         uint rtnValue = SetupApiWrapper.NO_ERROR;
         switch (notification)
         {
            case SetupApiWrapper.SPFILENOTIFY_FILEINCABINET:
               rtnValue = OnFileFound(context, notification, param1, param2);
               break;
            case SetupApiWrapper.SPFILENOTIFY_FILEEXTRACTED:
               rtnValue = SetupApiWrapper.NO_ERROR; // OnFileExtractComplete(param1);
               break;
            case SetupApiWrapper.SPFILENOTIFY_NEEDNEWCABINET:
               rtnValue = SetupApiWrapper.NO_ERROR;
               break;
         }
         return rtnValue;
      }


      public TCabinetFile()
      {

      }

      /// <summary>
      /// output directory
      /// </summary>
      private string m_OutputDirectory = "";
      public string OutputDirectory
      {
         set
         {
            if (!System.IO.Directory.Exists(value))
               throw new System.Exception("The Output directory doesn't exist.");

            m_OutputDirectory = value;
         }
         get
         {
            if (m_OutputDirectory.Length <= 0)
               return System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
            return m_OutputDirectory;
         }
      }

      protected virtual uint OnFileFound(uint context, uint notification, IntPtr param1, IntPtr param2)
      {
         uint fileOperation = SetupApiWrapper.NO_ERROR;
         FILE_IN_CABINET_INFO fileInCabinetInfo = (FILE_IN_CABINET_INFO)Marshal.PtrToStructure(param1, typeof(FILE_IN_CABINET_INFO));
         
         //TFile file = new TFile(fileInCabinetInfo);

         switch (context)
         {
            case (uint)SetupIterateCabinetAction.Iterate:
               fileOperation = (uint)FILEOP.FILEOP_SKIP;
               break;

            case (uint)SetupIterateCabinetAction.Extract:
               fileOperation = (uint)FILEOP.FILEOP_DOIT;

               fileInCabinetInfo.FullTargetName = System.IO.Path.Combine(this.OutputDirectory, fileInCabinetInfo.NameInCabinet);

               Marshal.StructureToPtr(fileInCabinetInfo, param1, true);

               break;
         }

         return fileOperation;
      }

      public void ExtractAll(string cabinetFileName)
      {
         PSP_FILE_CALLBACK callback = new PSP_FILE_CALLBACK(this.CallBack);

         uint setupIterateCabinetAction = (uint)SetupIterateCabinetAction.Extract;

         if (!SetupApiWrapper.SetupIterateCabinet(cabinetFileName, 0, callback, setupIterateCabinetAction))
         {
            string errMsg = new Win32Exception((int)KernelApiWrapper.GetLastError()).Message;
            System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(errMsg);
         }
      } 
   }
}

Hi~
Thanks for your source, it helps me a lot. But it cannot work perfectly..The problem is that when I try to open the 2nd cab file, exception throws up..Why?

The first cab file lists fine. Then the second cab file errors out. It seems that SetupIterateCabinet cannot be called twice. Does anyone have a work-around for this?

Using Visual Studio 2008 with .Net Framework 2.0 (also tested 3.5).

Hi!

Thanks for your code. However, I want to know that how can I broke it!!!! I mean how we can broke the cab file? Does it return an exception or ...?

Thanks alot.

Your article is potentially quite interesting. Care to talk more about the API you use, how to use it in other applications and so on?

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