You can easily add comments to your Zip archives, or read them from existing Zip archives, with this compiled assembly.

The compiled assembly supports the Deflate compression algorithm. This means everyone else's Zip implementations will be able to read and decompress your files, and you can read and decompress Zip files made by almost every other Zip implementation out there from within Silverlight. For example, you can open a Zip archive created with this compiled assembly using the Windows Explorer as if it were a "compressed folder" in the operating system.

Read and create archives in the GZip (.gz) file format.

Work with Zip archives that contain filenames with Chinese, Cyrillic, Latin, and other character sets simply by setting the appropriate code page to use. Filenames and comments can optionally be encoded as UTF-8 (Unicode).

Create and open Zip archives that contain password-protected file entries.

Create and un-zip Zip archives that span multiple volumes (this feature is used when a Zip archive is too big for one disc, and must span multiple discs).

Read Zip archives from any Stream, and write Zip archives to any Stream. This makes it easy for you to put your Zips into either local files or include them as part of network requests.

Read and create archives in the Zip (.zip) file format.

Create and open Zip archives that contain more than 65,536 file entries, and that contain files with a file size > 2 GB.