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Asked: 2026-05-28T04:13:13+00:00

I’m searching a way to add embedded resource to my solution. This resources will

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I’m searching a way to add embedded resource to my solution. This resources will be folders with a lot of files in them. On user demand they need to be decompressed.

I’m searching for a way do store such folders in executable without involving third-party libraries (Looks rather stupid, but this is the task).

I have found, that I can GZip and UnGZip them using standard libraries. But GZip handles single file only. In such cases TAR should come to the scene. But I haven’t found TAR implementation among standard classes.

Maybe it possible decompress TAR with bare C#?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since you are not allowed to use outside libraries, you are not restricted to a specific format of the tar file either. In fact, they don’t even need it to be all in the same file.

    You can write your own tar-like utility in C# that walks a directory tree, and produces two files: a “header” file that consists of a serialized dictionary mapping System.IO.Path instances to an offset/length pairs, and a big file containing the content of individual files concatenated into one giant blob. This is not a trivial task, but it’s not overly complicated either.

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