Shetab Mount Zip Library is a software tools that mount zip files for your application as same as normal folder at runtime. Your application can perform all read-only operations on files and folder with any component and API or tools that you already use it, 100% transparent on zip file. Shetab Mount Zip Library create layer in Windows Kernel mode but don't need any driver installation or administrator privilege. Your application will not know that the working folder is zip file too. Zip file is very portable and standard today, famous product such as Microsoft Office Word 2007 (DOCX files) and Microsoft Excel (XLSX files) and Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (PPTX files) is zip file too, you can rename them to zip file and extract them. With Shetab Mount Zip Library you don t need to extract the content of your product, it maps zip files and its contents to normal files into your process without extracting it to disk and your application will see it as normal file system and will not know about the existence of zip file. Pack your application data files with Shetab Mount Zip Library to standard zip file and access to them as unzipped files.
Read following scenario to more understand what Shetab Mount Zip Library can do for you: Scenario 1. Your application contains one exe file and many other data files and folders around it. In this case you can simply copress all of your data to zip format and at start of your application call Shetab Mount Zip Library to simulate it to normal files and folders. Scenario 2. Your software is autorun builder software, it gets images, flash, sound, movie, and html and so on, in this case how your software generates output? With Shetab Mount Zip Library you can add your generated folder into a zip file at runtime and you can create single exe file of it. With just calling following sequence your application will run normally in single exe file: ShetabPacker.AddZip (zipfile or exefile); ShetabPacker.Mount().
Limitations:
supports 25 files, stops mounting after 25 minutes
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