Description

The SfxBinaryModule property is used to inform the Xceed Zip Compression Library to create self-extracting zip files instead of regular zip files, and to provide the filename and location of the binary to use for creating the self-extracting Zip files.

If you do not specify a path and filename in the SfxBinaryModule property, the Zip method will create a regular zip file. If you specify a path and filename, the library will create a self-extracting zip file.

You can use the binaries provided with the Xceed Zip Self-Extractor Module or any 3rd party binary such as the Info-Zip group's free SFX binary. Only the binaries provided with the Xceed Zip Self-Extractor Module are configurable. These binaries are as follows:

Note for Windows Vista users

In order for your self-extracting zip file to work properly under Windows Vista, one of the following SFX modules which have been compiled with the appropriate manifests must be used. 

All the manifests used by the above SFX modules have their requestedExecution attribute level set to the corresponding value, and the UIAccess attribute set to false. Select the one which bests suits the target platform.

For more information can be found on the Understanding and Configuring User Account Control in Windows Vista web site.

Data type

String

Default value

Empty (Create regular zip files, not self-extracting zip files)

UINT XzGetSfxBinaryModule( 
HXCEEDZIP hZip, TCHAR* pszBuffer, UINT uMaxLength )
void XzSetSfxBinaryModule( HXCEEDZIP hZip, const TCHAR* pszValue )
                    

Applicable methods

Zip, Convert

Related topics

None