Decompress a ZIP archive with .NET

 1namespace BenjaminAbt.ZipFileSample;
 2
 3using System;
 4using System.IO;
 5using System.IO.Compression;
 6
 7class Program
 8{
 9    static void Main()
10    {
11        // fullname zip file
12        string zipFilePath = @"C:\ben\path\to\your\compressedFolder.zip";
13
14        // target folder to write files of the zip archive
15        string extractPath = @"C:\ben\path\to\extract\folder";
16
17        DecompressZipFile(zipFilePath, extractPath);
18        Console.WriteLine("ZIP file decompressed successfully!");
19    }
20
21    static void DecompressZipFile(string zipFilePath, string extractPath)
22    {
23        if (Directory.Exists(extractPath))
24        {
25            Directory.Delete(extractPath, recursive: true); // Delete existing directory to avoid conflicts
26        }
27
28        ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(zipFilePath, extractPath);
29    }
30}