Winzip

Hi,

Is it possible to reference Winzip from within a VB application that I am
writing? I need to automatically create archive files from programs that
I am writing and the only way I have been able to do it so far is by the
old dos method.

Regards


Rob.

There are a number of ZIP custom controls available. I'd check those out.

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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com
"rob" <rob@solo.co.uk> wrote in message news:3cbd9a36$1@10.1.10.29...
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to reference Winzip from within a VB application that I am
> writing? I need to automatically create archive files from programs that
> I am writing and the only way I have been able to do it so far is by the
> old dos method.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Rob.

Hi Rob,

At http://www.vbaccelerator.com/ under code>libraries>compression there is
excellent sample VB code that wraps a library called InfoZip.

InfoZip is a freeware compression library - as a matter of fact the same
"engine" used at least in part by WinZip (See the About>Acknowledgements in
WinZip).

I've succesfully adapted the vbaccelerator code to accomplish what you're
looking for and it honestly took only a few hours.

HTH,

JasonL
"rob" <rob@solo.co.uk> wrote in message news:3cbd9a36$1@10.1.10.29...
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to reference Winzip from within a VB application that I am
> writing? I need to automatically create archive files from programs that
> I am writing and the only way I have been able to do it so far is by the
> old dos method.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Rob.