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Downloading and Extracting Silverlight Resources at Runtime

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:24:53 GMT

One nice feature of Silverlight is the ability to load resources from the server at runtime. For example, suppose your application needs to display text in a specific font. Ideally, your code would call out to the server (using WebClient) to pull these resources only as they become necessary. The cool thing is that you can zip up any resource you have and then extract it for use on the client side.

Creating Zip Archives In .Net Without An External Library

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:16:03 GMT

Jon Galloway offers his advice on creating your own zip library. SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can't use it due to the GPL license? I'll look at a few options, ending with my favorite - System.IO.Packaging.

Excel 2007 Files Are WinZip/WinRAR Files In Disguise

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:06:14 GMT

Did you know that Excel 2007 files are zipped up? Rename the xlsx extension to zip or rar and open it up in WinRAR or WinZip

Compressing and uncompressing ZIP files

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:31:05 GMT

A simple tutorial about how to compress and uncompress ZIP files using SharpZipLib.

Write dataset contents directly to zip file

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:07:05 GMT

This article shows how to write the contents of a dataset (Dataset.WriteXML) directly into a zip file, without creating any temporary file first.