Comments on: Did you know – Zip is built into .NET? http://blog.dmbcllc.com/2008/08/21/did-you-know-zip-is-built-into-net/ ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, Visual Studio, CSharp, VB.NET and other programming items of interest. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:34:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James http://blog.dmbcllc.com/2008/08/21/did-you-know-zip-is-built-into-net/comment-page-1/#comment-1128 James Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:53:49 +0000 http://blog.dmbcllc.com/2008/08/21/did-you-know-zip-is-built-into-net/#comment-1128 Actually, it's not built into the .NET Framework. It's built into the J# Runtime Package... and J# is a separate install that runs on top of .NET 2.0 or newer. So you have yet-another-DLL, except in this case, you have the baggage of the full J# runtime instead of just a small DLL... and you have the added hassle of deploying J# with your app rather than just dropping in one more DLL into your app's existing deployment. Actually, it’s not built into the .NET Framework. It’s built into the J# Runtime Package… and J# is a separate install that runs on top of .NET 2.0 or newer.

So you have yet-another-DLL, except in this case, you have the baggage of the full J# runtime instead of just a small DLL… and you have the added hassle of deploying J# with your app rather than just dropping in one more DLL into your app’s existing deployment.

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