Compressing assemblies for C # /. Net?

Question

I know about SharpZipLib ... but what else is there? I would like to make myself a file archiving program that supports several compression formats. Any ideas?

Answer 1

QuickLZ claims to be the fastest in the world.

http://www.quicklz.com/

What about System.IO.Packaging?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.packaging.aspx

Answer 2

There is a built-in System.IO.Compression library that supports GZip and Deflate. This is not a bad place to start, as its documentation is better than most.

Answer 3

LZMA SDK ( 7-Zip) - .

http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html

Answer 4

http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/ < - imho , sharpziplib

http://sevenzipsharp.codeplex.com/ < - 7zip

http://www.chilkatsoft.com/zip-dotnet.asp <- not for free. bz2, gzip and .z