CabEntry.Open

CabEntry.Open method

Opens the entry for extraction and provides a stream with entry content.

public Stream Open()

Return Value

The stream that represents the contents of the entry.

Exceptions

exceptioncondition
NotSupportedExceptionStream initialization failed due to wrong data.
InvalidDataExceptionArchive is corrupted.

Remarks

Read from the stream to get original content of file. See examples section.

Examples

Usage:

Stream decompressed = entry.Open();

.NET 4.0 and higher - use Stream.CopyTo method:

decompressed.CopyTo(httpResponse.OutputStream)

.NET 3.5 and before - copy bytes manually:

byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
int bytesRead;
while (0 < (bytesRead = decompressed.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)))
 fileStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);

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