ZipFileExtensions Class

The ZipFileExtensions class contains only static methods that extend the ZipArchive and ZipArchiveEntry classes. You do not create an instance of the ZipFileExtensions class; instead, you use these methods from instances of ZipArchive or ZipArchiveEntry.

To use the extension methods, you must reference the System.IO.Compression.FileSystem assembly in your project. The System.IO.Compression.FileSystem assembly is not available in Windows Store apps. Therefore, the ZipFileExtensions and ZipFile classes (both of which are in the System.IO.Compression.FileSystem assembly) are not available in Windows Store apps. In Windows Store apps, you work with compressed files by using the methods in ZipArchive, ZipArchiveEntry, DeflateStream, and GZipStream.

The ZipFileExtensions class contains three methods that extend ZipArchive:

• CreateEntryFromFile(ZipArchive, String, String)

• CreateEntryFromFile(ZipArchive, String, String, CompressionLevel)

• ExtractToDirectory(ZipArchive, String)

The ZipFileExtensions class contains two methods that extend ZipArchiveEntry:

• ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String)

• ExtractToFile(ZipArchiveEntry, String, Boolean)

The following example shows how to create a new entry in a zip archive from an existing file, and extract the contents of the archive to a directory.

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

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string zipPath = @"c:\users\exampleuser\start.zip";
            string extractPath = @"c:\users\exampleuser\extract";
            string newFile = @"c:\users\exampleuser\NewFile.txt";

            using (ZipArchive archive = ZipFile.Open(zipPath, ZipArchiveMode.Update))
            {
                archive.CreateEntryFromFile(newFile, "NewEntry.txt");
                archive.ExtractToDirectory(extractPath);
            } 
        }
    }
}

The following example shows how to iterate through the contents of a zip archive and extract files that have a .txt extension.

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

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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