Rob Oldfield wrote:
> Is there any way that I can feed the path of a zip file to a vb.net windows
> forms app and get at the files within it? I don't want to be reliant on
> having winzip loaded on the client machine and I know that I could just
> package a dos unzip utility in my app, but is there a better way of doing
> it?
>
>

> Is there any way that I can feed the path of a zip file to a vb.net
> windows
> forms app and get at the files within it? I don't want to be reliant on
> having winzip loaded on the client machine and I know that I could just
> package a dos unzip utility in my app, but is there a better way of doing
> it?

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
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> Rob,
>
> "Rob Oldfield" <blah@blah.com> schrieb:
> > Is there any way that I can feed the path of a zip file to a vb.net
> > windows
> > forms app and get at the files within it? I don't want to be reliant on
> > having winzip loaded on the client machine and I know that I could just
> > package a dos unzip utility in my app, but is there a better way of
doing
> > it?
>
> The Zip, GZip, BZip2 and Tar Implementation For .NET
> <URL:http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/>
>
> The VB.NET Resource Kit contains zipping functionality too:
>
> The Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit
> <URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/>
>
> It contains ComponentOne Zip for .NET:
>
> ComponentOne Zip™ for .NET
>

>
> Using J#'s zip functionality:
>
> Using the Zip Classes in the J# Class Libraries to Compress Files and Data
> with C#
> <URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/zipcompression/>
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
>

"Rob Oldfield" <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
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> "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
> news:OhietmFGFHA.548@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > Rob,
> >
> > "Rob Oldfield" <blah@blah.com> schrieb:
> > > Is there any way that I can feed the path of a zip file to a vb.net
> > > windows
> > > forms app and get at the files within it? I don't want to be reliant
on
> > > having winzip loaded on the client machine and I know that I could
just
> > > package a dos unzip utility in my app, but is there a better way of
> doing
> > > it?
> >
> > The Zip, GZip, BZip2 and Tar Implementation For .NET
> > <URL:http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/>
> >
> > The VB.NET Resource Kit contains zipping functionality too:
> >
> > The Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit
> > <URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/>
> >
> > It contains ComponentOne Zip for .NET:
> >
> > ComponentOne ZipT for .NET
> >
>
<URL:http://www.componentone.com/products.aspx?TabTypeID=1&ItemType=1&PanelI
> ndex=14&ItemID=53569&SubCategoryTypeID=0&TabMapID=57&TabID=70>
> >
> > Using J#'s zip functionality:
> >
> > Using the Zip Classes in the J# Class Libraries to Compress Files and
Data
> > with C#
> > <URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/zipcompression/>
> >
> > --
> > M S Herfried K. Wagner
> > M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> > V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
> >
>
> Thanks for the suggestions both of you. Sadly I'm still not getting
> anywhere.
>
> The VB resource kit is failing to install correctly on my machine... I'm
> just getting "Server Application Unavailable" when I try going to the
> welcome.aspx page. Is there any way I can get at ComponentOne directly
> without using the built in navigation system?
>
> The Sharp option I have working... but unless I'm missing it there doesn't
> seem to be a way of actually getting at a file within a zip. (...the zips
> I'm going to be playing with will contain csv files, and I want to be able
> to read the contents of those files)
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

> The VB resource kit is failing to install correctly on my machine... I'm
> just getting "Server Application Unavailable" when I try going to the
> welcome.aspx page. Is there any way I can get at ComponentOne directly
> without using the built in navigation system?

>
> Maybe this helps you to fix the problem:
>
> <URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/faq/#installcode>
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

> It wasn't that solution... it was the other one. I needed to switch the
> machine.config authentication from machine to system.
>
> ...and I'm now happily unzipping files

> (And apologies for earlier sending this to your
> reply address. I must have hit the wrong button.)

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" wrote:

> Rob,
>
> "Rob Oldfield" <blah@blah.com> schrieb:
> > Is there any way that I can feed the path of a zip file to a vb.net
> > windows
> > forms app and get at the files within it? I don't want to be reliant on
> > having winzip loaded on the client machine and I know that I could just
> > package a dos unzip utility in my app, but is there a better way of doing
> > it?
>
> The Zip, GZip, BZip2 and Tar Implementation For .NET
> <URL:http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/>
>
> The VB.NET Resource Kit contains zipping functionality too:
>
> The Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit
> <URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/vbrkit/>
>
> It contains ComponentOne Zip for .NET:
>
> ComponentOne Zipâ„¢ for .NET
> <URL:http://www.componentone.com/products.aspx?TabTypeID=1&ItemType=1&PanelIndex=14&ItemID=53569&SubCategoryTypeID=0&TabMapID=57&TabID=70>
>
> Using J#'s zip functionality:
>
> Using the Zip Classes in the J# Class Libraries to Compress Files and Data
> with C#
> <URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/zipcompression/>
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
>