ZipArchiveEntry Class

A zip archive contains an entry for each compressed file. The ZipArchiveEntry class enables you to examine the properties of an entry, and open or delete the entry. When you open an entry, you can modify the compressed file by writing to the stream for that compressed file. You open an entry by calling the Open method.

If you reference the System.IO.Compression.FileSystem assembly in your project, you can access two extension methods for the ZipArchiveEntry class. Those methods are ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String) and ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String, Boolean), and they enable you to decompress the contents of the entry to a file. The System.IO.Compression.FileSystem assembly is not available in Windows 8. In Windows Store apps, you can decompress the contents of an archive by using DeflateStream or GZipStream, or you can use the Windows Runtime types Compressor and Decompressor to compress and decompress files.

You can retrieve an entry either by iterating through the Entries collection in ZipArchive, or by calling the GetEntry method in ZipArchive. You can create a new entry by calling CreateEntry or CreateEntryFromFile.

The first example shows how to create a new entry in a zip archive and write to it.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (FileStream zipToOpen = new FileStream(@"c:\users\exampleuser\release.zip", FileMode.Open))
            {
                using (ZipArchive archive = new ZipArchive(zipToOpen, ZipArchiveMode.Update))
                {
                    ZipArchiveEntry readmeEntry = archive.CreateEntry("Readme.txt");
                    using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(readmeEntry.Open()))
                    {
                            writer.WriteLine("Information about this package.");
                            writer.WriteLine("========================");
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

The second example shows how to use the ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String) extension method. You must reference the System.IO.Compression.FileSystem assembly in your project for the code to execute.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string zipPath = @"c:\example\start.zip";
            string extractPath = @"c:\example\extract";

            using (ZipArchive archive = ZipFile.OpenRead(zipPath))
            {
                foreach (ZipArchiveEntry entry in archive.Entries)
                {
                    if (entry.FullName.EndsWith(".txt", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                    {
                        entry.ExtractToFile(Path.Combine(extractPath, entry.FullName));
                    }
                }
            } 
        }
    }
}

.NET Framework

.NET for Windows Store apps

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)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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