Wednesday, February 27, 2013

No ZipArchive in WP8, Pain level 4

Every 6 hours or so there’s a wonderful new compatibility puzzle to solve.  Win8 has ZipArchive.  WP8 has none! 

What should I choose as a substitute? ZipCompress (solo developer, recent updates, but not spending much time on the project), DotNetZip (no updates for over a year), SharpZipLib-WP7 (no updates for 2 years), or something completely different?

The GetResourceStream() method shown here doesn’t seem to work for large .zip files, presumably because it’s using a MemoryStream internally leading to OutOfMemoryExceptions.

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