Some of our projects at work have been using ActiveXZip, a free zip compression library. The only problem is, it apparently doesn’t work with ASP.NET 2.0 (we upgraded recently). Nor do I particularly care for the annoying splash screen that comes up whenever you initialize it.
My co-worker found SharpZipLib, which showed a lot of promise. I downloaded it and tried porting our existing code over to use it, but I’m running into some trouble using it to create a zip file. The sample code is…well, look at it this way — it takes 40 lines of code to add a file to the zipped archive. Forty! In ActiveXZip, it’s one. That’s how it should be. A zip library ought to take care of all the nitty-gritty technical details and let me worry about my app instead.
I wish I were coding in Ruby or Python… ~sigh~
In the meantime, today I discovered Stevey’s old blog (and his new one) and will be reading through the archives.
[tags]ActiveXZip, SharpZipLib, .NET[/tags]