c# file class that can be added to zip archive.

dhenderson12
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I have a console application that creates several text files on disk, then adds them to a zip file.

What I would like to do is:
1. create the files as "virtual" files, ie create a class for each file with name and contents
2. write these class files to a zip archive.

Any thoughts appreciated.
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So you want to serialize instances of this class to a file? Can you expand your explanation a tad?
dhenderson12

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hey, kaufmed, thanks for the reply.

I was thinking that I don't really need a physical file on disk if I can create a class with a name property and a content property (the other file properties are not useful to me).  I could create this class instead of a physical file, and then add it to a zip archive as if it was a physical
file.  I'm just not sure how to go about it.

If I create the  physical file then I would need to delete it after it is added to the zip archive.
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Ah. Here's an example using DotNetZip (which you can install using NuGet).

using System.Text;
using Ionic.Zip;

namespace ConsoleApplication42
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            TheClass instance = new TheClass() { Name = "example.txt", Content = "Hello World!" };
            ZipFile zip = new ZipFile("example.zip");
            byte[] data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(instance.Content);

            zip.AddEntry(instance.Name, data);
            zip.Save();
        }
    }

    public class TheClass
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Content { get; set; }
    }
}

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kaufmed, you rock!  This works perfectly and is just what I was looking for.  Thanks for help.

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