Open Zip from URL (OpenFromWeb)

Open a .zip from a URL and unzip.

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Chilkat.Zip zip = new Chilkat.Zip();

bool success;

//  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
success = zip.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show(zip.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Downloads a .zip into memory and opens it.
success = zip.OpenFromWeb("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/hamlet.zip");
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show(zip.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  It can be unzipped to disk:
int fileCount;
fileCount = zip.Unzip("c:/temp");
if (fileCount < 0) {
    MessageBox.Show(zip.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Alternatively, individual entries may be unzipped into memory.
//  In this case, it is unzipped into a string:
string fileContents;
Chilkat.ZipEntry entry = null;
bool addCR;
addCR = true;
entry = zip.GetEntryByName("hamlet.xml");
if (!(entry == null )) {
    //  If the file has bare LF line endings, add the CR to get
    //  CRLF line endings.
    fileContents = entry.InflateToString(addCR);
    textBox1.Text += fileContents + "\r\n";
    textBox1.Refresh();
}