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REALLY small unzip utility for Silverlight
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 .xa...
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Downloading and Extracting Silverlight Resources at Runtime
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...
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Creating Zip Archives In .Net Without An External Library
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.
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Excel 2007 Files Are WinZip/WinRAR Files In Disguise
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
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Compressing and uncompressing ZIP files
A simple tutorial about how to compress and uncompress ZIP files using SharpZipLib.
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Write dataset contents directly to zip file
This article shows how to write the contents of a dataset (Dataset.WriteXML) directly into a zip file, without creating any temporary file first.