REALLY small unzip utility for Silverlight(sharpgis.net)

submitted by crpietschmann(11.3k) 2 years, 9 months 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: read more...

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Downloading and Extracting Silverlight Resources at Runtime(pagebrooks.com)

submitted by pbrooks(775) 3 years, 10 months ago

One nice feature of Silverlight is the ability to load resources from the server at runtime. For example, suppose your application needs to display text in a specific font. Ideally, your code would call out to the server (using WebClient) to pull these resources only as they become necessary. The cool thing is that you can zip up any resource you have and then extract it for use on the client side. read more...

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Creating Zip Archives In .Net Without An External Library(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by monty(2575) 4 years, 3 months ago

Jon Galloway offers his advice on creating your own zip library. SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can't use it due to the GPL license? I'll look at a few options, ending with my favorite - System.IO.Packaging. read more...

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Excel 2007 Files Are WinZip/WinRAR Files In Disguise(sqlservercode.blogspot.com)

submitted by yahden(715) 4 years, 8 months ago

Did you know that Excel 2007 files are zipped up? Rename the xlsx extension to zip or rar and open it up in WinRAR or WinZip read more...

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Compressing and uncompressing ZIP files(codecruncher.blogsome.com)

submitted by CarlosMPerez(160) 5 years, 1 month ago

A simple tutorial about how to compress and uncompress ZIP files using SharpZipLib. read more...

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Write dataset contents directly to zip file(papadi.gr)

submitted by papadi(310) 5 years, 1 month ago

This article shows how to write the contents of a dataset (Dataset.WriteXML) directly into a zip file, without creating any temporary file first. read more...

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