I am trying to develop code to unzip file from the zip file in Silverlight 5. The files are in a directory within the zip file.
I translated this code I found elsewhere from c# to VB since we are a VB shop. It is failing on the fourth line "Object reference not set to an instance of an object.". I realize now that the problem is that the third line is expecting a relative uri and I am passing it a file, but I don't know how to fix this.
Can you tell me what is wrong with this code. I will also welcome other ideas.
Thanks.
Public Shared Function GetZipContents(ByVal filename As String) As String()
Try
Dim zipStream As System.IO.Stream = New System.IO.MemoryStream()
Dim zipInfo As New StreamResourceInfo(zipStream, Nothing)
Dim streamInfo As StreamResourceInfo = Application.GetResourceStream(zipInfo, New Uri(filename, UriKind.Relative))
Dim fileStream As Stream = streamInfo.Stream
Dim names As New List(Of String)()
Dim reader As New BinaryReader(fileStream)
Do While reader.ReadUInt32() = &H4034B50
' Skip the portions of the header we don't care about
reader.BaseStream.Seek(14, SeekOrigin.Current)
Dim compressedSize As UInteger = reader.ReadUInt32()
Dim uncompressedSize As UInteger = reader.ReadUInt32()
Dim nameLength As Integer = reader.ReadUInt16()
Dim extraLength As Integer = reader.ReadUInt16()
Dim nameBytes() As Byte = reader.ReadBytes(nameLength)
names.Add(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(nameBytes, 0, nameLength))
reader.BaseStream.Seek(extraLength + compressedSize, SeekOrigin.Current)
Loop
' Move the stream back to the begining
fileStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin)
Return names.ToArray()
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
Return Nothing
End Try
End Function