REALLY small unzip utility for Silverlight

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REALLY small unzip utility for Silverlight(sharpgis.net)

submitted by crpietschmann(11.3k) 3 years, 1 month ago

There are quite a few libraries out there that adds zip decompression/compression to Silverlight. However, common to them all is that they add significantly to the size of the resulting .xap. It turns out that Silverlight 2.0 already has zip decompression built-in. It uses this to uncompress the .xap files which really just are zip files with a different file extension. There are several blog posts out there that will tell you how to dynamically load a XAP file and load it. It turns out that if you use the same approach with almost any other zip file, you can actually do the same thing, even though this is not a Silverlight XAP. I don’t think this was the original intent. but its still really neat! Here’s how to accomplish that, based on a zip file stream:

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