ComponentOne Zip for .NET’s class library is architected to provide developers with three levels of programmatic control. At the most abstract level you take total control over zip files, but when you need more power and flexibility, you can work directly with the low level data compression engine. This object model simplifies the process adding robust data compression and zip file manipulation functionality to your .NET applications, making it easier than you’ve ever imagined!

Zip for .NET Includes

• High Level Classes: C1ZipFile, C1ZipEntry, and C1ZipEntryCollection
  The highest level classes in the ComponentOne Zip for .NET library include the C1ZipFile, C1ZipEntry, and C1ZipEntryCollection classes. These classes give you the power to create, open, and easily manage industry standard zip files. With these classes, you can inspect the contents of zip files, test their integrity, and even add, delete, and extract entries to and from zip files. Using zip files to store application data provides the following benefits:
  
  
  • Streamline application deployment: Consolidate multiple files into a single compressed zip file (optionally password protected).
  • Save disk space and network bandwidth: Allow your end-users to give their hard disk and network the extra space it deserves by adding convenient zip compression to your .NET application.
  • Industry standard format: No need to worry about file compatibility. ComponentOne Zip for .NET allows you to completely control industry standard zip files.
• Medium Level Classes: C1ZipFile, C1ZipEntry, and C1ZipEntryCollection
  The medium level classes in the ComponentOne Zip for .NET library include C1ZStreamReader and C1ZStreamWriter. These classes let your .NET applications perform a variety of powerful data compression tasks on not only zip files, but any .NET streams. With just a few lines of code, add complete data compression functionality to your applications!
  
  
  • Fast, low memory compression engine: Save time with ComponentOne Zip for .NET’s unique compression engine.
  • Stream-based compression and decompression: Stream-based functionality provides maximum flexibility for compressing and decompressing data into and out of regular .NET streams.
• Low Level Classes: C# Implementation of Zlib
  C# Implementation of Zlib in the ComponentOne Zip for .NET library is ZStream. It is a 100% C# implementation of Zlib, the popular data-compression library written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. ZStream is the most flexible class included in ComponentOne Zip for .NET and is used extensively by the higher level classes in C1Zip.