7zSharp to your .Net Archive/Unarchiving Rescue - LGPL .Net Wrapper for 7z

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"7zSharp is a .NET 2.0 LGPL wrapper around the 7z LZMA SDK and executable written in C#, providing a library (DLL) wrapper and simplified API to encode and decode using the 7z library.

Ability to encode: 7z (.7z), ZIP (.zip), GZIP (.gz), BZIP2 (.bz2) and TAR (.tar)

Ability to decode: 7z (.7z), ZIP (.zip), GZIP (.gz), BZIP2 (.bz2) and TAR (.tar), RAR (.rar), CAB (.cab), ISO (.iso), ARJ (.arj), LZH (.lzh), CHM (.chm), Z (.Z), CPIO (.cpio), RPM (.rpm), DEB (.deb), NSIS (.nsis)

Example:
// encode:
CompressionEngine.Current.Encoder.EncodeFromDirectory(@"C:\someDirectory", "C:\out\someDirectory.7z");
// decode:
CompressionEngine.Current.Decoder.DecodeIntoDirectory(@"C:\out\someDirectory.zip", "C:\someDirectory");

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7-Zip is my current fav archive/compressed file handler.

Also funny enough, I was looking at wrapping into an assembly for usage in a .Net (and even VB6 app). But luckily enough someone beat me too it (as I was going to do a much lamer command line stdout implementation  ;).

So this is a project I'll be watching and playing with...