View files inside of zip files?

techwiz24

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This one might be tricky. I want to be able to read, lets say a text file, from inside of a zip file. How would I do this without un-zipping the file? could I do something like "C:\test.zip /test.txt"? or would I have to do other things?

Edit, I tried, but
VB.NET:
IF System.IO.File.Exists("C:\test.zip /test.txt") then
MsgBox("File Exists")
Else
MsgBox("something else")
End If
doesn't even return anything
 
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You can't view the contents of a file inside an archive without extracting, i.e. decompressing, that data. There is no ZIP support in the .NET Framework so you will either have to code something yourself, invoke an application that you have installed, use the ZIP support built into Windows, or else use a third-party component. There are various third-party components around, including SharpZipLib and DotNetZip, which are both free.
 
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