Yet Another Windows Class Supporting Zip
Posted by Mark Nelson on 28th February 2006 | Permanent Link
Fernando A. Gómez F. decided that the world needed one more class library for zipping and unzipping files:
Compressing and decompressing files are nowadays necessary, in order to improve several tasks, such as transferring files between servers. There are many APIs out there that allows add zip/unzip functionallity to programs. Recently, I needed a component that could be used in both C++ and VBS, so I started to look some zip APIs. I found an excellent one in Lucian Wischik’s article. However, it was an API written in C/C++, not usable in VBS. So, I decided to do a wrapper around such API and created an ATL-based COM component.
The result was this post to the CodeProject web site.
The article is pretty long on code listings and a bit shorter on explanation, but the class looks easy enough to deal with. If you’re using VB, I guess this is a decent option.