What tool is used by VS to pack .xap files?

What tool is used by VS to pack .xap files?

I mean, what it calls internally to pack them as zip?

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Answer: 1

Why would you even care? But if you are looking for a zip library that you can use yourself, take a look at DotNetZip. I have used it myself to extract a .config file from a .xap archive, edit it, and add it back to the xap archive. Worked like a charm.

by : Elmar de Koninghttp://stackoverflow.com/users/579651

Answer: 2

If you want to know the tool i thinks its a MSBUILD task "XapPackager" defined in Microsoft.Silverlight.Build.Tasks.dll ,

 <UsingTask TaskName="Microsoft.Silverlight.Build.Tasks.XapPackager"  AssemblyFile="Microsoft.Silverlight.WindowsPhone.Build.Tasks.dll" /> 

You can get more information from reading 'Microsoft.Silverlight.targets' file

http://ngenerics.googlecode.com/svn-history/r318/trunk/Source/Dependencies/SilverlightForPhoneV4.0/Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets

by : Amitdhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/158297

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