.net - How to use System.IO.Compression to read/write ZIP files?

Question

I know there are libraries out there for working with ZIP files. And, you can alternatively use the functionality built into Windows for working ZIP files.

But, I'm wondering if anyone has worked out how to use the tools built into the System.IO.Compression namespace within .NET for reading/writing ZIP files? Or, is it not possible using only this namespace?

UPDATED: I've seem someone comment that the System.IO.Packaging namespace might be usefull with this also. Does anyone know exactly how to do it?

Answer 1

MSDN has a complete example http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.packaging.zippackage.aspx using the ZipPackage class. Requires .NET 3.5.