Question

I am trying to get a method that uses the DotNetZip library to extract a file to the current working directory, although I can’t seem to get it to do it, it wants a file path:

private void unzipfiles()
{
    using (var zip = Ionic.Zip.ZipFile.Read("ccsetup307.zip"))
    {
        zip.ExtractAll("directory-name", 
                       ExtractExistingFileAction.OverwriteSilently);
    }
}

Answer 1

If you want to extract to the current directory, why don’t you use the GetCurrentDirectory method and pass that in as the expected parameter like so:

using (var zip = Ionic.Zip.ZipFile.Read("ccsetup307.zip"))
{
    zip.ExtractAll(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()
                  ,ExtractExistingFileAction.OverwriteSilently);
}

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directory.getcurrentdirectory.aspx

I know it isn’t implicit but it should work fine for you.