using System; using System.IO; using System.IO.Compression; namespace ConsoleApplication { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { string startPath = @"c:\example\start"; string zipPath = @"c:\example\result.zip"; string extractPath = @"c:\example\extract"; ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory(startPath, zipPath, CompressionLevel.Fastest, true); ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(zipPath, extractPath); } } }