Create normal zip file programmatically

Question

I have seen many tutorials on how to compress a single file in c#. But I need to be able to create a normal *.zip file out of more than just one file. Is there anything in .

Answer 1

This can be done with just one line of code using just Dot Net. Below is sample code copied from MSDN

Step 1: Add a reference to System.IO.Compression.FileSystem

Step 2: Follow the code below

        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);

            ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(zipPath, extractPath);
        }