How do I ZIP a file in C#, using no 3rd-party APIs?
How can I programatically (C#) ZIP a file (in Windows) without using any third party libraries?
If using the 4.5+ Framework, there is now the ZipArchive and ZipFile classes.
using (ZipArchive zip = ZipFile.Open("test.zip", ZipArchiveMode.Create))
{
zip.CreateEntryFromFile(@"c:\something.txt", "data/path/something.txt");
}
You need to add references to:
- System.IO.Compression
- System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
For .NET Core targeting net46, you need to add dependencies for
- System.IO.Compression
- System.IO.Compression.ZipFile
Example project.json:
"dependencies": {
"System.IO.Compression": "4.1.0",
"System.IO.Compression.ZipFile": "4.0.1"
},
"frameworks": {
"net46": {}
}
For .NET Core 2.0, just adding a simple using statement is all that is needed:
- using System.IO.Compression;
Are you using .NET 3.5? You could use the ZipPackage
class and related classes. Its more than just zipping up a file list because it wants a MIME type for each file you add. It might do what you want.
I'm currently using these classes for a similar problem to archive several related files into a single file for download. We use a file extension to associate the download file with our desktop app. One small problem we ran into was that its not possible to just use a third-party tool like 7-zip to create the zip files because the client side code can't open it -- ZipPackage adds a hidden file describing the content type of each component file and cannot open a zip file if that content type file is missing.