CompressionMode Enumeration
.NET Framework 4.5
Specifies whether to compress or decompress the underlying stream.
Namespace: System.IO.Compression
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
This enumeration is used with the GZipStream and DeflateStream classes.
The following code example uses the CompressionMode enumeration with the GZipStream class to compress and decompress a file.
using System; using System.IO; using System.IO.Compression; namespace zip { public class Program { public static void Main() { string directoryPath = @"c:\users\public\reports"; DirectoryInfo directorySelected = new DirectoryInfo(directoryPath); foreach (FileInfo fileToCompress in directorySelected.GetFiles()) { Compress(fileToCompress); } foreach (FileInfo fileToDecompress in directorySelected.GetFiles("*.gz")) { Decompress(fileToDecompress); } } public static void Compress(FileInfo fileToCompress) { using (FileStream originalFileStream = fileToCompress.OpenRead()) { if ((File.GetAttributes(fileToCompress.FullName) & FileAttributes.Hidden) != FileAttributes.Hidden & fileToCompress.Extension != ".gz") { using (FileStream compressedFileStream = File.Create(fileToCompress.FullName + ".gz")) { using (GZipStream compressionStream = new GZipStream(compressedFileStream, CompressionMode.Compress)) { originalFileStream.CopyTo(compressionStream); Console.WriteLine("Compressed {0} from {1} to {2} bytes.", fileToCompress.Name, fileToCompress.Length.ToString(), compressedFileStream.Length.ToString()); } } } } } public static void Decompress(FileInfo fileToDecompress) { using (FileStream originalFileStream = fileToDecompress.OpenRead()) { string currentFileName = fileToDecompress.FullName; string newFileName = currentFileName.Remove(currentFileName.Length - fileToDecompress.Extension.Length); using (FileStream decompressedFileStream = File.Create(newFileName)) { using (GZipStream decompressionStream = new GZipStream(originalFileStream, CompressionMode.Decompress)) { decompressionStream.CopyTo(decompressedFileStream); Console.WriteLine("Decompressed: {0}", fileToDecompress.Name); } } } } } }
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
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