How to compress files

Question

I want to compress a file and a directory in C#. I found some solution in Internet but they are so complex and I couldn\'t run them in my project. Can anybody suggest me a clear

Answer 1

For .Net Framework 4.5 this is the most clear example I found:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string startPath = @"c:\example\start";
            string zipPath = @"c:\example\result.zip";
            string extractPath = @"c:\example\extract";

            ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(startPath, zipPath);

            ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(zipPath, extractPath);
        }
    }
}

You'll need to add a reference to System.IO.Compression.FileSystem

From: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/how-to-compress-and-extract-files