Question

I have a zip file at a URI (such as http://www.abc.com/a.zip) that I would like to open and save a file from it to disk. Is there a way in C# to open it without saving it to disk and then saving a file from it to disk?

Thanks,

Sachin

Answer 1

The example of the extracting the zip file without saving the archive to the file system using DotNetZip.

private static void ExtractFromUrl(Uri uri, string directoryPath)
{
    using (var webClient = new WebClient())
    {
        var data = webClient.DownloadData(uri);
        using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream(data))
        using (var zipFile = ZipFile.Read(memoryStream))
        {
            zipFile.ExtractAll(directoryPath);
        }                
    }
}