I have an ASP.NET website that stores large numbers of files such as videos. I want an easy way to allow the user to download all the files in a single package. I was thinking about creating ZIP files dynamically.
All the examples I have seen involve creating the file before it is downloaded but potentially terabytes of information will be downloaded and therefor the user will have a long wait. Apparently ZIP files store all the information regarding what is in the ZIP file at the end of the file.
My idea is to dynamically create the file as its downloaded. This way I could allow the user to click download. The download would start and not require any space on the server to be pre packaged as it would copy things over uncompressed sequentially. The final part of the file would contain the information on the contents of what has been downloaded.
Has anyone had any experience of this? Does anyone know a better way of doing this? At the moment I cant see any pre made utilities for doing this but I believe it will work. If it doesn't exist then i'm thinking that I will have to read the Zip file format specifications and write my own code... something that will take more time than I was intending to spend on this.
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I have been trying to write a simple Markdown -> docx parser/writer, but am completely stuck with the last part, which should be the easiest: i.e. compressing the folder into a .docx that Word, or any other .docx reader, will recognize.
My parser-writer is irrelevant really: I have this problem if I simply unzip any old Word-produced *.docx and then try to recompress it with the usual compression utilities, giving it the file-ending docx. Is there some mysterious header I should be adding, or do I need a special OPC compression utility, or what?
I don't so much want a tool that will do this, as to figure out what is supposed to be there. It seems to be independent of the WordprocessingML specification.
Needless to say I don't know anything about compression. Everything I can find via Google has to do with fancy utilities you can use in business, but I'm making a little executable that would be GPLd or something, and should work on anything.
The most common problem around manually zipping together Open XML documents is that it will not work if you zip the directory instead of the contents. In other words, the[content_types].xml file, and the word, docProps, and _rels directories need to reside at the root level of the zip file.
Here are steps to unzip my.docx and re-zip:
% mkdir unzipped
% cd unzipped/
% unzip ../my.docx
% zip -r ../rezipped.docx *
% open ../rezipped.docx
The compression algorithm used is "Zip" (Base 64) compression.
7zip seems to offer this, though i have no tested it.
Further to what Mica said, the contents of the ZIP file are organised according to the Open Packaging Convention; cf. Microsoft's Essentials of the Open Packaging Convention.
You can use the .NET System.IO.Packaging to make and manipulate .docx files; this class is implemented in the Mono project.
I am very new to C# and hoping this is a simple question. Not finding what I need on google
I have a file C:\test\losses.csv
That I want to open up then convert to an xlsx file and save in a different directory.
Save to
C:\test\Losses.xlsx
The reason for opening the file is the move command does not convert it to xlsx, unfortunately it keeps the same structure as the csv and is unusable in that format.
File.Copy(#"C:\test\losses.csv", #"C:\test1\Losses.xlsx");
The above code works great but still is a csv file (well really a hybrid of one). That is another SAP story.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
File.Copy only copies the file - similar to copying a file in DOS or in windows file explorer.
You'd need to translate your CSV to an XLSX file. The format should be pretty straight-forward, but you'll need to do more research:
Load the CSV as a data table
Use the Excel.XlFileFormat.xlOpenXMLWorkbook class to translate the file.
A different StackOverflow problem addresses how to use the xlOpenXMLWorkbook:
Exporting to .xlsx using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel SaveAs Error
Hope this helps. Good luck.
I want to download only specified file from torrent using MonoTorrent.
I use TorrentFile.Priority = Priority.DoNotDownload; , with this MonoTorrent doesn't download useless files for me, but MonoTorrent creates fake clear file, how can i avoid it? How can i avoid creation of fake mirror files for files with DoNowDownload priority?
Thanks!
The only way to avoid it is to exclude that file from initial torrent file. That is protocol specific problem - fake files used to count pices hash.
In my asp.net aplication I would like to give the oportunity to the user to check on its local machine zip file. Then I would like to get this file on server(without saving it on the server) unzip it proceed and save proceeded data to database.
What should I do to accomplish this task? Thank You for any hints
I would use a zip library to read in the zip file stream and process the files contained inside. I have previously used SharpZipLib for this purpose before. See SharpZipLib Examples for more information.