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Create and protect a zip archive with a password

This page covers how to create, extract and protect a zip archive with a password.

Nella libreria dei template, sotto la sezione Scripts, è disponibile l’oggetto ZipUnzipLogic che consente di creare/scompattare archivi. Dispone dei metodi esportati CreateZipArchive, per creare un file zip e UnzipArchive per scompattare i contenuti di un file zip. L’oggetto dispone delle seguenti proprietà:

  • Source: when running the CreateZipArchive method, it indicates the full path to files or folder to be compressed. However, when running UnzipArchive , it indicates the path to the zip file to be extracted.

  • Target: when running the CreateZipArchive method, it indicates the full path to the zip file in which compressed files/folders are placed. However, when running UnzipArchive , it indicates the destination folder in which extracted items are placed.

  • Password: Optional parameter. Indicates the password to be used to extract or compress files.

Importing the script in a project

Lo script utilizza la libreria SharpZipLib che permette di comprimere, decomprimere file zip e proteggerli eventualmente con una password. Una volta importato lo script nel progetto, è necessario eseguire i seguenti passi affinché la soluzione .NET possa essere compilata correttamente:

  1. Open the .NET solution of your project:

  2. Open the NuGet package manager ( in Visual Studio: Tools > NuGet package manager > Manage NuGet packages for Solution)

  3. In the Browse section, find the SharpZipLib and proceed with the installation.

  4. Double click the project’s .csproj and add the following line:<CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>true</CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies> after <AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>

Rebuild the solution

To use the script, the CreateZipArchive and UnzipArchive methods must be invoked through an event e.g. a MouseClick event of a button.