Extract files from within executable in c#

Question

So i am writing a program in C#, I need to add files from within my project to a folder on the users system.

I have a folder within my 'Solution Explorer' in visual studio 2013, I wish for these files to be somehow extracted to a directory on the users System.

For example:

Application is executed.
Application extracts files from within itself to %appdata%/MyFiles/files

I am new with C# and learning so please let me know whether this is possible or not and if there is a better way to go about this.

Thanks in advance.

Further research led me to this answer which worked: stackoverflow.com/a/2997157/3952266 — Hugh Macdonald
– Hugh Macdonald, Commented Sep 13, 2014 at 12:05

codebased · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-13 11:26:15Z

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Use a new class in .Net 4.5 called ZipFile

You can extract files.

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);
        }
    }
}

answered Sep 13, 2014 at 11:26

codebased

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4 Comments

Hugh Macdonald Over a year ago

I could be wring, but does this just extract files from .zip archives?

codebased Over a year ago

showed you an example that will create with the help of CreateFromDirectory and with the help of ExtractToDirectory it will extract. So what you need is to call ExtractToDirectory and give it a right path that yo ucan change in the zipPath variable.

Hugh Macdonald Over a year ago

So will the above method extract files from within the executable itself?

codebased Over a year ago

Please give it a try.

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