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James
James

Reputation: 2246

Zipping many files and upload them to FTP

I have a requirement of uploading several image files to FTP.

The main goal to achieve here is performance, speed.

My approach here is to, zip all files at client end, and ftp upload them and un-archive them back on server.

Is there any better approach??

and what is the best way to zip like 1000 images? Should I use .net inbuild mechanism OR some external library?

Note : I have VS 2012 development environment for this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 852

Answers (1)

Kurubaran
Kurubaran

Reputation: 8902

Zip it on the client end and FTP it and unzip them on the server would be best approach in term of performance and speed. sending 1000+ files to the server will not be a ideal solution.

Better to use open source libraries to zip the files. You may use Ionic Zip. You can easily zip and unzip files using the exposed API.

Code Sample

Zipping Files

 using (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile())
 {
     // add this map file into the "images" directory in the zip archive
     zip.AddFile("c:\\images\\personal\\7440-N49th.png", "images");

     zip.Save("MyZipFile.zip");
 }

Unzipping files

    public void ExtractZipFile(string fullZipFileName, string extractPath)
    {

        using (ZipFile zip = ZipFile.Read(fullZipFileName))
        {
            //Extract the zip file
            zip.ExtractAll(extractPath);
        };
    }

Upvotes: 1

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