C# ZipFile ExtractToDirectory(String, String)

Description

ZipFile ExtractToDirectory(String, String) Extracts all the files in the specified zip archive to a directory on the file system.

Syntax

ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(String, String) has the following syntax.

public static void ExtractToDirectory(
  string sourceArchiveFileName,
  string destinationDirectoryName
)

Parameters

ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(String, String) has the following parameters.

• sourceArchiveFileName - The path to the archive that is to be extracted.
• destinationDirectoryName - The path to the directory in which to place the extracted files, specified as a relative or absolute path. A relative path is interpreted as relative to the current working directory.

Returns

ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(String, String) method returns

Example

This example shows how to create and extract a zip archive by using the ZipFile class.

using System;/*  w  ww .j a v a  2s  .  co m*/
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;

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);
    }
}