Creating Directories in a ZipArchive C# .Net 4.5

Question

A ZipArchive is a collection of ZipArchiveEntries, and adding/removing \"Entries\" works nicely. But it appears there is no notion of directories / nested \"Archives\". In t

Answer 1

If you are working on a project that can use full .NET you may try to use the ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory method, as explained here:

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

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

            ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(startPath, zipPath, CompressionLevel.Fastest, true);

            ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(zipPath, extractPath);
        }
    }
}

Of course this will only work if you are creating new Zips based on a given directory.

As per the comment, the previous solution does not preserve the directory structure. If that is needed, then the following code might address that:

    var InputDirectory = @"c:\example\start";
    var OutputFilename = @"c:\example\result.zip";
    using (Stream zipStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(OutputFilename), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
    using (ZipArchive archive = new ZipArchive(zipStream, ZipArchiveMode.Create))
    {
        foreach(var filePath in System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(InputDirectory,"*.*",System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories))
        {
            var relativePath = filePath.Replace(InputDirectory,string.Empty);
            using (Stream fileStream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
            using (Stream fileStreamInZip = archive.CreateEntry(relativePath).Open())
                fileStream.CopyTo(fileStreamInZip);
        }
    }