Quote Originally Posted by jmcilhinney View Post
No it isn't. You'd be thinking about one or more third-party components that provide ZIP support.
Er no, I'd be thinking about http://visualstudiomagazine.com/arti...VBzipfig1.ashx

and the accompanying article

By comparison, the code to compress a folder and its contents with the ZIPFile class in .NET Framework 4.5 Beta is a single line using static methods of the ZIPFile class:

IO.Compression.ZIPFile.CreateFromDirectory(
FolderPath, ZipFullFilename, Optimization, includeBaseDirectory:=False)