C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook

Getting ready

Perform the following steps:

1. Create a console application and call it FilesExample:

2. Right-click on the References node and select Add Reference... from the context menu:

3. In the Reference Manager, search for the word compression. Add a reference to System.IO.Compression and System.IO.Compression.FileSystem to your project and click on the OK button.

At the time of writing, there was a System.IO.Compression version 4.1.0.0 and System.IO.Compression version 4.0.0.0 available from the Reference Manager. The example I created ...