Question

I am using http://sharpcompress.codeplex.com/ to compress a directory:

using (var archive = ZipArchive.Create())
{
    archive.AddAllFromDirectory(folderPath);
}

Would it be possible to discard files with a special extension: .dll in a selected folder?

Answer 1

Add the files individually and filter out the ones you don’t want.

using (var zip = File.OpenWrite("C:\\test.zip"))
  using (var zipWriter = WriterFactory.Open(ArchiveType.Zip, zip))
  {

  FileInfo[] fi = Directory.GetFiles(folderPath);
  foreach(var f in fi)
  {
    if(f.Extension != ".dll")
      zipWriter.Write(Path.GetFileName(file), filePath);
  }

}

Above code to add files individually is taken from the sharpcompress documentation, with a few extra lines to filter out dll files.