Using SharpZipLib to unzip specific files?

Question

I\'m trying to use SharpZipLib to pull specified files from a zip archive. All of the examples I\'ve seen always expect that you want to unzip the entire zip, and do somethi

Answer 1

ZipFile.GetEntry should do the trick:

using (var fs = new FileStream(sourcePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
using (var zf = new ZipFile(fs)) {
   var ze = zf.GetEntry(fileName);
   if (ze == null) {
      throw new ArgumentException(fileName, "not found in Zip");
   }

   using (var s = zf.GetInputStream(ze)) {
      // do something with ZipInputStream
   }
}