How to Extract folders from ZIP?

I'm using .NET 4.5 which has ZIP abilities built in.

Say my project is structured like this:

Code:

├── ListOfFolders.zip (Locked with password)
       └── FolderA
       └── FolderB
       └── FolderC
└── Hack.exe (Allows you to choose where to install certain folders that are inside the zip)

The user runs Hack.exe and selects:

Which folders he wants
Where to extract the selected folders

Would someone be willing to help with this? This would be a useful function to share if I could have some help writing it.

.NET 4.5 Documentation. Doesn't achieve what I'm trying to do.

Code to iterate through ZIP

Code:

using System;
using System****;
using System****.Compression;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string zipPath = @"c:\example\start.zip";
            string extractPath = @"c:\example\extract";

            using (ZipArchive archive = ZipFile.OpenRead(zipPath))
            {
                foreach (ZipArchiveEntry entry in archive.Entries)
                {
                    if (entry.FullName.EndsWith(".txt", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                    {
                        entry.ExtractToFile(Path.Combine(extractPath, entry.FullName));
                    }
                }
            } 
        }
    }
}

Those of you that are helping me, be sure to reference

Code:

IO.Compression

Try this. I'm sure there are better ways of doing it, but it works for me..

Code:

 public static void extractDir(string directoryName, string zipPath, string extractPath)
        {

            //Open Zip Archive
            using (ZipArchive archive = ZipFile.OpenRead(zipPath))
            {
                //For each file in archive
                foreach (ZipArchiveEntry entry in archive.Entries)
                {
                    //If Directory name equals directoryName          Splitting the Directory path, to get the first directory name of the path
                    //Console.WriteLine(Path.GetDirectoryName(entry.FullName));
                    if (Path.GetDirectoryName(entry.FullName).Split('/')[0].Equals(directoryName) || Path.GetDirectoryName(entry.FullName).Split('\\')[0].Equals(directoryName))
                    {
                        //Combine the destination path
                        string combinedPath = Path.Combine(extractPath, Path.GetDirectoryName(entry.FullName));
                        //Create directory(s)
                        if (!Directory.Exists(combinedPath))
                        {
                            Directory.CreateDirectory(combinedPath);
                        }

                        //Check if the entry is a directory
                        if (!Directory.Exists(Path.Combine(combinedPath, entry.Name)))
                        {
                            entry.ExtractToFile(Path.Combine(combinedPath, entry.Name));
                        }
                    }

                }
            }
        }

A function call would look like this:

extractDir("FolderInZipFileToExtract","Zipfile.zip ","DestinationPath");

The Structure inside the folder to extract is kept the same.

How to Extract folders from ZIP?

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