How to zip a csv file

[Graduate]

Hi Guys,

I have a Sales.csv file that is sitting in the C drive I want to zip it in C# code this is the code that I used but it is not ziping the Sales.csv file.
Please help!!!

ProcessStartInfo ps = new ProcessStartInfo();
                    ps.UseShellExecute = true;
                    ps.Arguments = @"C:\Sales" + dr["dbkey"].ToString() + ".csv";
                    
                    ps.FileName = "C:\\Program Files\\WinZip\\WZZIP.EXE";  
                    Process p = Process.Start(ps);
                    p.WaitForExit();

Many thanks,

[TamusJRoyce]

I've had good results using http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/.

And another one is http://sevenzipsharp.codeplex.com/, which 7zip is my main zip utility. I haven't used its api yet.

I don't know about using winzip/winrar, but you would probably want a sdk's.

>= .NET 3.0 has .zip compression library built-in, if you have licensing issues. It's located in System.IO.Packa ging.

I think any choice you choose where you don't have to call an external executable is a better choice. But please comment again if you are doing this for learning purposes (be sure to state you need help based on ShellExecute).

[Graduate]

Thanx for your help but I'm specifically told to use WinZip.

[TamusJRoyce]

What does

Console.WriteLi ne(@"C:\Sales" + dr["dbkey"].ToString() + ".csv");

or

MessageBox.Show (@"C:\Sales" + dr["dbkey"].ToString() + ".csv", ".csv to open");

say? I see right off hand that C:\S... should be C:\\S...

[Graduate]

this ps.Arguments = @"C:\Sales" + dr["dbkey"].ToString() + ".csv"; is going to take Sales1.csv from the C drive the dbkey is to make the files unique so that the will be no duplicate when it generate csv files.

if you put the @ it means that you dont have to put double qoutes.