Description: Introduction
With this project, C++ and .NET programmers get a very versatile library for compression and extraction of Microsoft CAB files.
.NET 1.1 does not offer compression functionality. .NET 2.0 offers the System.IO.Compression.GZipStream class. But this is awkward to use and very primitive it can only compress a stream but it is not possible to compress folders containing files and subfolders.
If you search the internet for more comfortable compression libraries, you find, for example, ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll which offers ZIP compression. But this library is awkward to use and buggy, and so is unusable. Although the bugs have been known for years, the author has not fixed them.
I asked myself why should I search for another open source library (which will again have other bugs) while Windows itself supports CAB archives since the first days? Microsoft s Cabinet.dll (in the System32 directory) is not buggy. Many Microsoft installers (like the installer for Interne
- [WinCAB] - CAB file compression efficiency than ZIP
File list (Check if you may need any files):
Cabinet C++ Project 10.2
........................\Cabinet
........................\.......\Blowfish.hpp
........................\.......\Cache.hpp
........................\.......\Compress.hpp
........................\.......\Defines.h
........................\.......\Error.hpp
........................\.......\Extract.hpp
........................\.......\ExtractMemory.hpp
........................\.......\ExtractResource.hpp
........................\.......\ExtractStream.hpp
........................\.......\ExtractUrl.hpp
........................\.......\FCI.H
........................\.......\FDI.H
........................\.......\File.hpp
........................\.......\Internet.hpp
........................\.......\Map.hpp
........................\.......\String.hpp
........................\.......\Trace.hpp
........................\Cabinet 2002.sln
........................\Cabinet 2002.vcproj
........................\Cabinet 2003.sln
........................\Cabinet 2003.vcproj
........................\Cabinet 2005_x32.sln
........................\Cabinet 2005_x32.vcproj
........................\Cabinet 2005_x64.sln
........................\Cabinet 2005_x64.vcproj
........................\Cabinet.cpp
........................\Cabinet.dsp
........................\Cabinet.dsw
........................\Cabinet.hpp
........................\Cabinet.rc
........................\Open_CAB_with_Explorer.reg
........................\Release
........................\.......\Cabinet_x32.exe
........................\.......\Cabinet_x64.exe
........................\Res
........................\...\Test.cab
........................\resource.h
........................\_CleanDirectory.cmd
Doku
....\Documentation.chm
....\Microsoft Cab File Format.doc
....\Microsoft Cabinet.dll Doku.doc
....\Microsoft Mszip Format.doc
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