asked on 12/29/2012

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

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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james henderson

12/29/2012

kaufmed

12/29/2012

So you want to serialize instances of this class to a file? Can you expand your explanation a tad?

Tapan Pattanaik

12/29/2012

Hi dhenderson12,

Please check these links.

The free C# ZIP library

http://geekswithblogs.net/twickers/archive/2005/11/08/59420.aspx

Chilkat C# Zip Class Reference:

http://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/csZipRef.html

A New Standard For Packaging Your Data:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163372.aspx

http://www.dotnetperls.com/7-zip

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.ziparchive%28v=VS.110%29.aspx

http://zipstorer.codeplex.com/

james henderson

12/29/2012

ASKER

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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james henderson

12/29/2012

ASKER

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