Released: Feb 23, 2011

Updates in this release

Features

• Easy to use API
• International characters in filenames (Unicode support).
• Supports large files (over 4GB).
• Wildcard support for adding, extracting and deleting files.
• Recursive directory tree operations.
• Both stream and file based operations.
• Create ZIP files in memory.
• Add data to ZIP file from stream or memory.
• Written in 100% pure .NET.
• Add, extract, rename, delete files in ZIP archive.
• 10 compression levels.
• ZIP archive shrinking.
• Events and delegates for effortless integration with your applications.
• Component source code available (C#).
• Deflate and Enhanced Deflate support (compatible with Deflate64™ by PKWARE).
• Read/write comments within ZIP file.
• Open self-extracting ZIP archives.
• Ability to inflate (decompress) directly to in-memory byte array.
• Searching for files inside the archive by wildcard mask.
• Support for IEnumerable<T> in ZIP item collections (required for using LINQ).
• All operations are done without any temporary files.
• Archive contents listings with complete file details (original size, compressed size, compression level, creation and last modification dates, CRC checksum).
• Custom Deflate algorithm implementation - no dependency on any open-source ZLib compression libraries