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Zipping files using VB .net (in SSIS)

I have an SSIS package that I'm converting from DTS (SQLServer 2005),
and the ActiveX Script Task (in VBScript) is deprecated, so I'm trying
to convert things to Script tasks (in VB .net).

I have a script that is zipping up some files, and it's using an old
Winzip, which I don't have on my pc, and certainly wouldn't have on
the server, once I got the code over there. So, I wanted to use the
built-in zip function for XP. If, in Windows explorer, I right-click
on a file, I can output that file to a zip file. So, how do I do that
in .net? Or, since the code I'm copying from shells to the command
line, how can I zip files using the command line? The assumption is
that I don't have anything extra installed, because I won't be able to
put it on our servers.

-thursday's geek
Jun 27 '08 #1
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I'd be interested in finding out if you could access the .NET
System.IO.Compr ession namespace from an SSIS script task. If so you could
use that to ZIP up some files.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...on(VS.80).aspx
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"Pro SQL Server 2008 XML"
http://www.amazon.com/Pro-SQL-Server...dp/1590599837/
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>I have an SSIS package that I'm converting from DTS (SQLServer 2005),
and the ActiveX Script Task (in VBScript) is deprecated, so I'm trying
to convert things to Script tasks (in VB .net).

I have a script that is zipping up some files, and it's using an old
Winzip, which I don't have on my pc, and certainly wouldn't have on
the server, once I got the code over there. So, I wanted to use the
built-in zip function for XP. If, in Windows explorer, I right-click
on a file, I can output that file to a zip file. So, how do I do that
in .net? Or, since the code I'm copying from shells to the command
line, how can I zip files using the command line? The assumption is
that I don't have anything extra installed, because I won't be able to
put it on our servers.

-thursday's geek

Jun 27 '08 #2

<ka**********@h moke.comwrote in message
news:1c******** *************** ***********@u12 g2000prd.google groups.com...
>I have an SSIS package that I'm converting from DTS (SQLServer 2005),
and the ActiveX Script Task (in VBScript) is deprecated, so I'm trying
to convert things to Script tasks (in VB .net).

I have a script that is zipping up some files, and it's using an old
Winzip, which I don't have on my pc, and certainly wouldn't have on
the server, once I got the code over there. So, I wanted to use the
built-in zip function for XP. If, in Windows explorer, I right-click
on a file, I can output that file to a zip file. So, how do I do that
in .net? Or, since the code I'm copying from shells to the command
line, how can I zip files using the command line? The assumption is
that I don't have anything extra installed, because I won't be able to
put it on our servers.

Here is an example of using one of the free zip libraries in code. You
should be able to find one in VB or it's not hard to use a C# example and
convert to VB. There are other free zip libraries use Google look them up.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/zip.aspx

Jun 27 '08 #3

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