How to merge multiple files in just one file

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Hi dears

I want to create a file with my own extension for e.g (.abp)
and I want to combine and merge 2 or more files to it.
something like making a zip file, but with my own extension that no others can open the file.

please help me how can I do this
and the important part is if I do this, then how can I extract those files that has been combined to one file and read or use them?

suppose that I want to make a file named (combined.cmb) and add one word document file and a spreadsheet file and one mp3 file to it.

and then how can I extract these three files back to read them?

Posted 15-Aug-12 8:28am

Mostafa M.A

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[no name] 15-Aug-12 14:33pm

Simple. Zip them and rename the archive to something other than yourfiles.zip.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Aug-12 14:36pm

Good point.
--SA

Mostafa M.A 15-Aug-12 16:01pm

ok it's a solution; there is a lot of code snippets in net for making a zip file but most of them was difficult to handle or understand, would you please help me for a solution to make a zip file from a directory?

[no name] 15-Aug-12 16:08pm

There are plenty, http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37887/C-Zip-Files-and-or-Folders (not so sure about this one), http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/21420/ZipStorer-A-Pure-C-Class-to-Store-Files-in-Zip (I would try this one first), http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/209731/Csharp-use-Zip-archives-without-external-libraries, among others. It's impossible for me to know what would not be difficult or easy for you to understand.

Mostafa M.A 15-Aug-12 22:01pm

thank you, it was so useful, I see your second link and it helped me a lot

[no name] 15-Aug-12 22:28pm

Good. Glad that it helped.

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Philip Stuyck · Answer 1 · 2012-08-15T11:01:00

Solution 1

use this library :
http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/[^]

Posted 15-Aug-12 11:01am

Philip Stuyck