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hi ther,

i am, a third year eng. student doing IT i need to know how to compress folder,
& to work with the zip files as my project needs to add files n folder in zip files, :)
but ther's no artical here so if can any help me out as my project is in vb & i didn't found any1 who knows compressing
files & folders in vb... :(
Also i want to edit the existing zip files by adding new files....
i am using visual studio 2010
please if any1 knows please help me out!!!!

Posted 24-Jan-11 1:59am

Aconite

Updated 24-Jan-11 2:04am

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E.F. Nijboer · Answer 1 · 2011-01-24T02:18:00

Solution 1

Have a look at these links:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1191472&SiteID=1[^]

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=360956&SiteID=1[^]

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/scottlysle/CompressFolders04242007124203PM/CompressFolders.aspx[^]

Good luck!

Posted 24-Jan-11 2:18am

E.F. Nijboer

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Aconite 26-Jan-11 5:09am

Thank's very much!!!

Aconite 1-Feb-11 22:34pm

Thanks it worked out and i compressed too but I need to decompress file too...

E.F. Nijboer 2-Feb-11 5:06am

But what are you using? For most there is also code/links on how to decompress. for example ZipOutputStream - ZipInputStream have a look here:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/9ce6c242-c14c-4969-9251-af95e4cf320f/zip--unzip-folders-and-f.aspx

E.F. Nijboer 2-Feb-11 5:07am

But what are you using? For most there is also code/links on how to decompress. for example ZipOutputStream/ZipInputStream have a look here:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/9ce6c242-c14c-4969-9251-af95e4cf320f/zip--unzip-folders-and-f.aspx

T.Saravanann · Answer 2 · 2011-01-24T02:23:00

Solution 2

Hi,

Refer the link...Here using SharpZipLib for Zip a File.

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Download.aspx[^]

http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/uploadfile/scottlysle/compressfoldersvb04262007005440am/compressfoldersvb.aspx[^]

Cheers :)

Posted 24-Jan-11 2:23am

T.Saravanann

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Aconite 26-Jan-11 5:09am

Thank's very much!!!

Eduard Keilholz · Answer 3 · 2011-01-24T03:26:00

You may want to check this[^] out. It's a compression library which supports not only zip, but other compression methods as well. Although the library is written in C#, you can use it in your VB.NET code. If you download the source codes you'll get some samples as well.

You can use the standard Windows compression as well, but I found it hard to compress multiple files into one zip archive so I recommend using the C# Zip library.

Good luck,

Eduard