How to use System.IO.Compression to read/write ZIP files?

Question

I know there are libraries out there for working with ZIP files. And, you can alternatively use the functionality built into Windows for working ZIP files.

But, I\'m

Answer 1

An older thread, I know, but I'd like to point out that .NET 4.5 added extensive improvements to system.io.compression. It can now manipulate .zip files quite well, even down to exposing individual files within the zip as streams capable or read and write without the step of extracting and compressing the files.