Description: Cabinet File (*.CAB) Compression and Extraction-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 Platform: |
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