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Zip and Unzip from a C# program using J# runtime

By Valeri Makarov

Zip and Unzip from a C# program using java.util.zip
C#, Windows, .NET 1.1VS.NET2003, Dev
Posted:25 Apr 2004
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Introduction

There are a lot of libraries to work with zip files. I found a very easy way to work with zip files from a C# program. The Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 comes with new language: J#. Let's look at it a little. For sure, Java is a parent of it; if so, java.util.zip is somewhere here! I spent a few minutes and found it in vjslib.dll. Let's do the work. Start a new C# project and select Windows Application. Our goal is something like that:

All we need to do is: add reference to our project:

Now, we can use it:

// Output stream 

java.io.FileOutputStream fos = new java.io.FileOutputStream(zipFileName); 

// Tie to zip stream 

java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream zos = new java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream(fos); 

// Stream with source file 

java.io.FileInputStream fis = new java.io.FileInputStream(sourceFile); 

// It's our entry in zip 

java.util.zip.ZipEntry ze = new java.util.zip.ZipEntry(sourceFile); 

zos.putNextEntry(ze); 
sbyte[] buffer = new sbyte[1024]; 
int len; 

// Read and write until done 

while((len = fis.read(buffer)) >= 0) 
{ 
    zos.write(buffer, 0, len); 
}
 
// Close everything 

zos.closeEntry(); 
fis.close(); 
zos.close(); 
fos.close(); 

Conclusion

That's all! Demo application is included.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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Valeri Makarov


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