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How to Create Zip Archive Using C#

For creating a zip archive, we’ll use

Aspose.ZIP for .NET

API which is a feature-rich, powerful and easy to use API. It allows to compress & decompress ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZ2 file formats on .NET platform without installing any software like WinRAR or 7ZIP. Moreover, developers can convert archive to another format. To add the reference, Open

NuGet

package manager, search for Aspose.ZIP and install. You may also use the following command from the Package Manager Console.

Command


PM> Install-Package Aspose.ZIP

Steps for Creating ZIP Archive in C#

Creating simple archive with

Aspose.ZIP for .NET

APIs can be done with just few lines of code.

  • Create FileStream object with the output ZIP archive file path as parameter.
  • Open and read the source file into a FileStream object with mod FileMode.Open and FileAccess.Read.
  • Create Archive class object.
  • use Archive.CreateEntry(string, FileStream) method to add the file into the archive.
  • Use Archive.Save(FileStream) method for creating the archive.

System Requirements

Before executing the code below, please make sure that you have the following prerequisites on your system.

  • Microsoft Windows or a compatible OS with .NET Framework, .NET Core
  • Development environment like Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Aspose.ZIP for .NET DLL referenced in your project
  • Add namespace in relevant class file
 

Create ZIP Archive - C# code example

 

    • ZIP Archiving Operations

    Aspose.Zip also provides some easy ways of compressing files or folders and creating ZIP archives programmatically using C#. Applications can perform tasks such as

    • Store multiple files to a ZIP archive
    • Store Files to Archives without compression as well
    • Add folders
    • Create a password protected ZIP archive using ZipCrypto
    • Encrypt ZIP archive with AES encryption
    • Set parallel compression mode or use LZMA, BZip2 or PPMd Compression within ZIP Archive

    Online Archiving Live Demos

    Extract documents right now by visiting our Live Demos website . The live demo has the following benefits

      No need to download API.
      No need to write any code.
      Just upload your files.
      You will get decompressed content instantly

    Other Supported Decompression Formats

    Using C#, One can also decompress many other formats including.

    3DS (3D Sudio DOS Mesh)
    3MF (3D Manufacturing Format)
    AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
    AMF (Additive Manufacturing Format)
    ASE (2D Animation File)
    AVI (Audio Video Multimedia Container)
    AZW (Digital Ebook Format)
    AZW3 (Amazon Kindle Format 8)
    BMP (Bitmap Image)
    CDR (Vector Drawing Image)
    CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
    CHM (Microsoft HTML help file)
    CMX (Corel Exchange Image)
    CS (C# Source Code File)
    CSPROJ (C# Project File)
    CSV (Comma Separated Values)
    DAE (Digital Asset Exchange)
    DCM (Digital Image)
    DGN (Drawing file)
    DIB (Device Independent Bitmap)
    DICOM (Digital Imaging & Communications)
    DIF (Data Interchange Format)
    DJVU (Graphics Format)
    DNG (Digital Camera Image)
    DOC (Microsoft Word Binary Format)
    DOCM (Microsoft Word 2007 Marco File)
    DOCX (Office 2007+ Words Document)
    DOT (Microsoft Word Template Files)
    DOTM (Microsoft Word 2007+ Template File)
    DOTX (Microsoft Word Template File)
    DWF (Design Web Format DWF)
    DWG (Proprietary binary files)
    DWT (AutoCAD drawing template file)
    DXF (Drawing Interchange Format)
    E00 (ESRI ArcInfo Interchange)
    EMF (Enhanced Metafile Format)
    EML (Outlook Email Messages)
    EMLX (Apple EMLX Format)
    EPS (Encapsulated PostScript Language)
    EPUB (E-book Format)
    EXIF (Exchangeable Image Format)
    FB2 (FictionBook)
    FBX (3D Format)
    FILEGDB (ESRI File Geodatabase)
    GEOJSON (JSON Based Format)
    GIF (Graphical Interchange Format)
    GLB (3D File Binary Representation)
    GLTF (GL Transmission Format)
    GML (Geography Markup Language)
    GPX (GPS Exchange format)
    HTM (Hypertext Markup Language)
    HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
    ICO (Microsoft Windows Icon)
    ICS (iCalendar)
    IFC (Industry Foundation Classes IFC file format)
    J2K (Wavelet Compressed Image)
    JP2 (JPEG 2000)
    JPEG (JPEG Image)
    JRXML (3D file)
    JT (Jupiter Tessellation File)
    KFX (Amazon Kindle Format 10)
    KML (Keyhole Markup Language)
    KMZ (KML Zipped)
    M4V (Apple Video Container)
    MBOX (Electronic Mail Messages)
    MD (Markdown Language)
    MHTML (Web Page Archive Format)
    MOBI (Open Ebook Format)
    MOV (QuickTime Format)
    MP3 (Digitally Encoded File)
    MPP (Microsoft Project Data File)
    MPT (Microsoft Project Template Files)
    MPX (Microsoft Exchange File Format)
    MSG (Outlook & Exchange Format)
    OBJ (3D File Format)
    ODG (Apache OpenOffice Draw Format)
    ODP (OpenDocument Presentation Format)
    ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet File)
    ODT (OpenDocument Text File Format)
    OFT (Outlook Email Templates)
    ONE (Microsoft OneNote Format)
    ONETOC2 (OneNote Table of Contents)
    OSM (Open Street Map)
    OST (Offline Storage Files)
    OTG (OpenDocument Standard)
    OTP (OpenDocument Standard Format)
    OTT (OpenDocument Standard Format)
    PCL (Printer Command Language)
    PDF (Portable Document Format)
    PDFA (Portable Document Format / A)
    PDFE (PDF Based Engineering Files)
    PDFUA (PDF/UA Standard)
    PDFVT (PDF/VT ISO 16612-2)
    PDFX (PDF/X ISO 15930)
    PLT (Vector-based plotter file)
    PLY (Polygon File Format)
    PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
    POT (Microsoft PowerPoint Template Files)
    POTM (Microsoft PowerPoint Template File)
    POTX (Microsoft PowerPoint Template Presentation)
    PPS (PowerPoint Slide Show)
    PPSM (Macro-enabled Slide Show)
    PPSX (PowerPoint Slide Show)
    PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003)
    PPTM (Macro-enabled Presentation File)
    PPTX (Open XML presentation Format)
    PSB (Adobe Photoshop File)
    PSD (Adobe Photoshop Native Format)
    PST (Outlook Personal Storage Files)
    RTF (Rich Text Format)
    RVM (AVEVA Plant Design Model)
    SHP (ESRI Shapefile)
    SLN (Visual Studio Solution File)
    STL (Interchangeable 3D Surface Geometry)
    SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
    SWF (SWF Format)
    TEX (LaTeX Output Text)
    TIFF (Tagged Image Format)
    TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format)
    TSV (Tab-Separated Values)
    TXT (Text Document)
    U3D (Universal 3D)
    VB (Visual Basic Source Code File)
    VCF (Virtual Card Format)
    VDW (Visio Graphics Service file)
    VDX (Microsoft Visio Drawing Format)
    VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
    VSD (Microsoft Visio Drawings)
    VSDM (Microsoft Visio Drawing Format)
    VSDX (Microsoft Visio Format)
    VSS (Stencil Files)
    VSSM (Microsoft Visio Stencil files)
    VSSX (Drawing Stencils)
    VST (Vector Image Files)
    VSTM (Microsoft Visio Template Files)
    VSTX (Microsoft Visio Drawing Template)
    VSX (Stencils)
    VTX (Microsoft Visio Drawing Template)
    WAV (Waveform Audio Format)
    WEBP (Raster Web Image)
    WMF (Microsoft Windows Metafile)
    WMV (Advanced Systems Format)
    X (DirectX Model Image)
    X3D (XML based 3D Graphics)
    XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language)
    XER (XER file format)
    XHTML (XML Text Based Markup)
    XLM (Excel Macro File)
    XLS (Excel Binary Format)
    XLSB (Binary Excel Workbook File)
    XLSM (Spreasheet File)
    XLSX (OOXML Excel File)
    XLT (Microsoft Excel Template)
    XLTM (Excel Macro-enabled Template)
    XLTX (Office OpenXML Excel Template)
    XML (Extensible Markup Language)
    XOML (Extensible Object Markup Language)
    XPS (XML Paper Specifications)
    XSLFO (XSL Formatting Objects)
    Create ZIP Archive via C# (Single or Multiple Files and Folders Archive)