Using Winzip from visual basic.net

[djfurthur]

the extreme visual basic forum suggested that i come here and ask this question since it pertains to .net functions.

i am trying to run winzip to unzip a file from visual basic. I was curious if someone knew the syntax to do such a thing using the process command.

thanks,

chris

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

Not sure if WinZip can be used that way, although you can download a command line version of winzip from www.winzip.com - that most definately can be used this way.

Also www.icsharpcode.net have a free zip library you could use as well, works very nicely in fact.

 

[mutant]

I never used WinZip from command line but there is a free GPL library that handles zips for .NET, check it out:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/

 

[djfurthur]

i am using the command line winzip to complete this project. I am not go with visual basic (either 6.0 or .NET), and i am having to port code from one version to another.