Rebex ZIP

ZIP and GZIP compression .NET library

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Easy-to-use API

Creating a ZIP archive

To create a ZIP archive or add files into existing one, use the static ZipArchive.Add method.

// add a file to the root of the ZIP archive
// (creates the ZIP archive if it doesn't exist)
ZipArchive.Add(@"C:\MyData\archive.zip", @"C:\MyData\file1.txt", "/");

To perform more operations using the same ZIP archive, use an instance of ZipArchive class.

// create new ZIP archive
// if the ZIP archive already exists, it will be overwritten
using (var zip = new ZipArchive(@"C:\MyData\archive.zip", ArchiveOpenMode.Create))
{
    // add a file to ZIP archive
    zip.AddFile(@"C:\MyData\file1.txt");

    // add whole directory to ZIP archive
    zip.Add(@"C:\MyData\Web\*");
}

Extracting a ZIP archive

To extract files from a ZIP archive, use ZipArchive.Extract or ZipArchive.ExtractAll methods.

// decompress all files from ZIP archive to "C:\MyData\Out" directory
ZipArchive.ExtractAll(@"C:\MyData\archive.zip", @"C:\MyData\Out");

To perform more operations using the same ZIP archive, use an instance of the ZipArchive class.

// open a ZIP archive
using (var zip = new ZipArchive(@"C:\MyData\archive.zip"))
{
    // extract "file1.txt" as "extracted.txt"
    zip.ExtractFile("file1.txt", @"C:\MyData\Out\extracted.txt");

    // extract all ".html" files
    zip.Extract("*.html", @"C:\MyData\Out");

    // or simply extract all items from the ZIP archive
    // (replace all existing files)
    zip.ExtractAll(@"C:\MyData\Out", ActionOnExistingFiles.OverwriteAll);
}

Displaying a progress bar

To display current progress, register the ProgressChanged event:

// WinForm initializations
// ...
var fileProgressBar = new System.Windows.Forms.ProgressBar();
var totalProgressBar = new System.Windows.Forms.ProgressBar();
var bytesProcessedLabel = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
// ...


// create ZipArchive instance
// ...

// register progress event handler
zip.ProgressChanged += (s, e) =>
{
    // update ProgressBar of the whole compression/decompression
    totalProgressBar.Value = (int)e.ProgressPercentage;

    // update ProgressBar of the current file
    fileProgressBar.Value = (int)e.CurrentFileProgressPercentage;

    // update Label of total processed bytes
    bytesProcessedLabel.Text = e.BytesProcessed.ToString();
};

// add, extract or delete files
// ...

To learn more about the ProgressChanged event, check out Progress reporting.