Question

This may be a simple question…I’m trying to extract or unzip exe file. I tried to unzip my exe file using winzip manually and it extracted many .mst, .cam, .exe files in a folder cache-2012.1.2.702-win_x64 I want to do this by pro-grammatically using c#.

I got this sample code from this link:http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=CS-Examples&referringTitle=Examples

Can anybodey give some code which extracts or unzip the exe file and then I want to launch a particular exe(cache_x86.msi) file from the extracted files.

The below makes a zip file and it’s not extracting the .exe file.

var sfxFileToCreate = @"D:\2012.1.2.702\64\cache-2012.1.2.702-win_x64.exe";
            using (var zip = new ZipFile())
            {
                var filesToAdd = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(".", "*.cs");
                zip.AddFiles(filesToAdd, "");
                var sfxOptions = new SelfExtractorSaveOptions
                {
                    Flavor = SelfExtractorFlavor.WinFormsApplication,
                    Quiet = false,
                    Copyright = "(c) 2011 Test",
                    Description = "This is a test",
                    SfxExeWindowTitle = "My SFX Window title" 
                };
                zip.SaveSelfExtractor(sfxFileToCreate, sfxOptions);
            }

Answer 1

I propose to use 7zip.exe console app. You can start it using Process class.

[edit]

Here’s the tutorial: http://www.dotnetperls.com/7-zip-examples