How do I open a zip file to read in c#

[Christine]

I am testing a program that downloads a zipped directory that contains text files.  I tried writing a utility that unzips the directory in c# but the version of C# does not support System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.  I would like to be able to unzip the files to read and compare.  Is there a way to read the zipped files without this namespace package?

 

Here is the example C# code I tried using as an example which does not work because the .ZipFile namespace does not exist.

 

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.IO.Compression;

...

string startPath = @"c:\example\start";

string zipPath = @"c:\example\result.zip";

string extractPath = @"c:\example\extract";

ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(startPath, zipPath);

ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(zipPath, extractPath);

 

 

[Nikolai]

Hi Christine,

You can use the .NET 4.0 zip support which is somewhat limited or use Telerik's - ZipArchive implementation part of WPF/WinForms bundle for all zip related tasks.

Regards,
Nikolai
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