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

Use the recursive approach to Zip Folders with Subfolders.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;

public static async Task ZipFileHelper(IFolder folderForZipping, IFolder folderForZipFile, string zipFileName)
{
    if (folderForZipping == null || folderForZipFile == null
        || string.IsNullOrEmpty(zipFileName))
    {
        throw new ArgumentException("Invalid argument...");
    }

    IFile zipFile = await folderForZipFile.CreateFileAsync(zipFileName, CreationCollisionOption.ReplaceExisting);

    // Create zip archive to access compressed files in memory stream
    using (MemoryStream zipStream = new MemoryStream())
    {
        using (ZipArchive zip = new ZipArchive(zipStream, ZipArchiveMode.Create, true))
        {
            await ZipSubFolders(folderForZipping, zip, "");
        }

        zipStream.Position = 0;
        using (Stream s = await zipFile.OpenAsync(FileAccess.ReadAndWrite))
        {
            zipStream.CopyTo(s);
        }
    }
    return true;
}

//Create zip file entry for folder and subfolders("sub/1.txt")
private static async Task ZipSubFolders(IFolder folder, ZipArchive zip, string dir)
{
    if (folder == null || zip == null)
        return;

    var files = await folder.GetFilesAsync();
    var en = files.GetEnumerator();
    while (en.MoveNext())
    {
        var file = en.Current;
        var entry = zip.CreateEntryFromFile(file.Path, dir + file.Name);                
    }

    var folders = await folder.GetFoldersAsync();
    var fEn = folders.GetEnumerator();
    while (fEn.MoveNext())
    {
        await ZipSubFolders(fEn.Current, zip, dir + fEn.Current.Name + "/");
    }
}