Question

I am currently learning C# during my studies and I am writing a small movie database application in it. I know its not good to save pictures (etc) inside the database, especially when adding movie covers that are rather big. But I don’t want the files to just get saved in a folder as this creates a mess if more and more movies are added to the list.

Does anyone know a way to store the files in some sort of a container file (like covers.xxx). Then that container contains all covers in one big file, the files can then be retrieved with an address or the name.

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/

Use above library and following code snippet.

 using (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile())
 {
     // add this map file into the "images" directory in the zip archive
     zip.AddFile("c:\\images\\personal\\7440-N49th.png", "images");
     // add the report into a different directory in the archive
     zip.AddFile("c:\\Reports\\2008-Regional-Sales-Report.pdf", "files");
     zip.AddFile("ReadMe.txt");
     zip.Save("MyZipFile.zip");
 }