Zip facility Dot Net 4.5 Features

 Zip facility 

Zip is one of the most accepted archive file formats. Zip format is supported in almost all operating systems with some built-in name.

• In Windows operating system it’s implemented by the name “Compressed folders”.
• In MAC OS it’s implemented by the name “Archive utility”.

Now in .NET we did not have built-in support for implementing Zip compression. Many developers where using third party components like “DotnetZip”. In .NET 4.5, the Zip feature is baked in the framework itself, inside the namespaceSystem.IO.Compression.

The first step is you need to reference two namespaces:

• System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
• System.IO.Compression

The next step is to import the below two namespaces:

using System.IO.Compression;

If you want to Zip files from a folder you can use the CreateFromDirectory function as shown below.

ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(@"D:\data",@"D:\data.zip");

If you wish to unzip, you can use the ExtractToDirectory function as shown in the below code.

ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(@"D:\data.zip", @"D:\data\unzip");