Silverlight360.UnRAR¶

Extracts RAR archives on the Xbox 360's own drives from a Silverlight360 app. UnRAR 7.3.2's library, built with xsdk into a DLL of its own, unrar360.xex, does the reading, decompressing and writing natively; the app passes paths and watches progress through RarExtractor.

using (var rar = new RarExtractor())
{
    // On a thread of its own: Extract returns when the archive is done.
    int result = rar.Extract(@"hdd:\Downloads\game.part1.rar", @"hdd:\Games\Game", null);
    if (result != RarExtractor.Success)
        Show(RarExtractor.Describe(result) + ": " + rar.Message);
}

Paths are the console's, as xsdk names its drives: hdd:\ the hard disk's data partition, usb:\ (or usb0: to usb2:) the USB drives, game:\ the app's own folder. The archive never passes through managed memory, so its size doesn't matter. An app's own code runs interpreted on the console, and decompressing in C# would be far too slow (Silverlight360's Performance).

RAR5 and RAR4 archives, stored, solid, encrypted and split into volumes, are extracted; a 61 MB archive of a 75 MB package takes under a second in xenia-edge.

Getting it¶

A release has what an app needs, built:

unrar360.xex	The DLL, at base 0x8F000000
Silverlight360.UnRAR.dll, Silverlight360.UnRAR.xml	The C# side, RarExtractor, with its documentation for IntelliSense. It needs Silverlight360.Common, which an app built with Silverlight360 has
licenses/unrar.txt, THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md	UnRAR's license, which goes with the DLL
LICENSE.md, README.md, BUILD.txt	Silverlight360.UnRAR's license, and what the release was built from

Then see Adding it to an app. To build it yourself, see Building.

Where it runs¶

In xenia-edge, where every check of the sample passes, and on a console (retail kernel 2.0.17559, running unsigned code), where the DLL loads in a Silverlight app's process beside Silverlight360.Https. See Testing for what was checked where.