The Xceed Zip control provides the following methods to accomplish the tasks of compressing, uncompressing, and manipulating zip files. Each method's behavior is determined by the values of various properties. The "Applicable properties" section in the documentation for each method lists the properties that are used by that method. When executing a method, it is important to correctly set all properties that are used by that method. Unwanted side effects may occur if properties were altered for the execution of one method, but were not set to the desired values for the next execution of a method that uses those same properties.
Most methods provide a return value that indicates if the operation was successful or if a warning or error has occurred. A properly coded application always checks, at the very least, to make sure the operation was successful. See the Error codes topic for a list of possible return values for all methods that return an xcdError type result code.
In some rare cases, VB may time-out when calling an Xceed Zip method. In this case, you would receive error 0x80010108 (-2147417848) from your VB application. To increment or cancel this time-out, you only need to set the OleRequestPendingTimeout property of your Application object to a bigger value, or to zero to prevent any timeout.