Rebex ZIP is a compression component for .NET languages (such as C# or VB.NET).

Features

Easy to use API (see the tutorial).
International characters in filenames (Unicode support).
Supports large files (over 4GB).
Wildcards support for adding, extracting and deleting files.
Recursive directory tree operations.
Both stream and file based operations.
Create ZIP files in memory.
Add data to ZIP file from stream or memory.
Written in 100% pure .NET.
All samples available in C# and VB.NET.
Samples for command line, WinForms and ASP.NET.
Add, extract, rename, delete files in ZIP archive.
10 compression levels.
ZIP archive shrinking.
Events and delegates for effortless integration with your applications.
Component source code available (C#).
Deflate and Enhanced Deflate support (compatible with Deflate64(tm) by PKWARE).
Read/write comments within ZIP file.
Open self-extracting ZIP archives.
Ability to inflate (decompress) directly to in-memory byte array.
Searching for files inside the archive by wildcard mask.
Support for IEnumerable<T> in ZIP item collections (required for using LINQ).
All operations are done without any temporary files.
Archive contents listings with complete file details (original size, compressed size, compression level, creation and last modification dates, CRC checksum).
Custom Deflate algorithm implementation - no dependency on any open-source ZLib compression libraries (unlike many others).

Compatibility