Question

I have a folder "D:\folder" and in this folder I have 10 files that I need to zip into a new archive "D:\folder.zip".

Currently I’m using ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib but this is not a mandatory requirement, so other solutions are acceptable.

The problem I’m facing is that when I try to execute the method FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(@"D:\folder") I get an error because of access to the specifided path.

How can I zip these files in a simple way?

Answer 1

DotNetZip is much easier to use than SharpZipLib, example of zipping all files in folder :

  using (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile())
  {
    zip.AddDirectory(@"MyDocuments\ProjectX", "ProjectX");
    zip.Save(zipFileToCreate);
  }

This is a an example from this page :

http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=CS-Examples&referringTitle=Examples