Sunday 8 March 2009

Zipping in C#

After spending hours digging around, trying to find the .net solution to zipping folders using c#, the easiest solution seems to be to use the command line for 7zip.

String zipper = @"c:\program files\7-zip\7z.exe";
String args = "a -tzip " + compressPath + " " + compressFolder;

Process proc = Process.Start(zipper, args);
proc.WaitForExit();



where compressPath is something like "C:\foo.zip" and compressFolder is something like "C:\foo".

Update: 9th March 2009
It's probably a good idea to make sure both compressPath and compressFolder are surrounded by quotes in case they contain spaces!