How to zip multiple files using only .net api in c#

Question

I like to zip multiple files which are being created dynamically in my web application. Those files should be zipped. For this, i dont want to use any third-party tools. just like to use .net api in c#

Answer 1

http://www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip Source codes are available, so you can see how they do it and write something similiar for yourself

Answer 2

Check out System.IO.Compression.DeflateStream. Youll find a couple of examples on msdn http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.deflatestream.aspx

Answer 3

I'm not sure what you mean by not wanting to use thrid party tools, but I assume its that you don't want some nasty interop to programmatically do it through another piece of software.

I recommend using ICSharpCode SharpZipLib

This can be added to your project as a reference DLL and is fairly straightforward for creating ZIP files and reading them.

Answer 4

Use System.IO.Packaging in .NET 3.0+.

See this introduction to System.IO.Packaging

Answer 5

You could always call a third-party executable like 7-zip with an appropriate command line using the System.Diagnostics.Process class. There's no interop that way because you're just asking the OS to launch a binary.