Example Programs

The following examples are included in the Chilkat Zip download:

Visual Basic Examples

• Compress Memory Data: Compress data in memory, and decompress. Demonstrates how to use Chilkat Zip for simple memory compression/decompression without involving files.
• Enumerate Files: Simple example showing to to read a Zip an enumerate over the files contained within.
• Find First Matching: Reads a zip, finds the first file matching a pattern, and unzips it.
• Full Example: An interface that allows you to create/modify/save Zip files. Just about every feature in ChilkatZip is demonstrated somewhere in this program.
• Get XML Directory: Shows to retrieve a directory of a Zip archive's contents in XML format.
• Progress Monitor: Shows how to monitor the progress of zip and unzip operations.
• Unzip a Directory Tree: Unzips an entire Zip archive, creating subdirectories as needed.
• Unzip a Single File: Opens a Zip, selects a single file, and unzips it.
• Unzip Matching Pattern: Opens a Zip and unzips all files matching a pattern.
• Unzip to Memory: Opens a zip, selects a single file, and inflates it in memory to be displayed in the interface.
• Zip a Directory Tree: Creates a new Zip file and recursively descends a directory tree adding all files contained within.
• Zip a Single File: Creates a new Zip containing a single file.
• Zip Matching Pattern: Creates a new zip that recursively descends a directory tree and adds all files that match a pattern.
• Zip Memory Data: Creates a new Zip containing an entry created directly from memory.

Active Server Page (ASP) Examples

• HTML Page from Zip: Display an HTML page that is contained withing a Zip archive.
• HTML Fragment from Zip: Include an HTML fragment retrieved from a Zip archive into an HTML page.
• Save Form Submission: Save an HTML form submission into a Zip archive on the web server.

Visual C++ Examples

• Add files to a Zip.
• Create a new Zip.
• Extract files from an existing Zip.
• Enumerate over the files in a Zip.
• Remove files from a Zip.