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# ZipTask Properties

The properties of the ZipTask class are listed below. For a complete list of ZipTask class members, see the ZipTask Members topic.

#### Public Instance Properties

Comment | The comment for the file.
DuplicateHandling | Specifies the behaviour when a duplicate file is found. The default is Add.
Encoding | The character encoding to use for filenames and comment inside the zip file. The default is the system's OEM code page.
FailOnError (inherited from Task) | Determines if task failure stops the build, or is just reported. The default is true.
Flatten | Ignore directory structure of source directory, compress all files into a single directory. The default value is false.
IfDefined (inherited from Task) | If true then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is true.
IncludeEmptyDirs | Include empty directories in the generated zip file. The default is false.
LogPrefix (inherited from Task) | Obsolete. The prefix used when sending messages to the log.
Name (inherited from Task) | The name of the task.
NamespaceManager (inherited from Element) | Gets or sets the XmlNamespaceManager.
Parent (inherited from Element) | Gets or sets the parent of the element.
Project (inherited from Element) | Gets or sets the Project to which this element belongs.
Properties (inherited from Element) | Gets the properties local to this Element and the Project.
Stamp | Date/time stamp for the files in the format MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS.
Threshold (inherited from Task) | Gets or sets the log threshold for this Task. By default the threshold of a task is Debug, causing no messages to be filtered in the task itself.
UnlessDefined (inherited from Task) | Opposite of IfDefined. If false then the task will be executed; otherwise, skipped. The default is false.
Verbose (inherited from Task) | Determines whether the task should report detailed build log messages. The default is false.
ZipFile | The zip file to create.
ZipFileSets | The set of files to be included in the archive.
ZipLevel | Desired level of compression. Possible values are 0 (STORE only) to 9 (highest). The default is `6`.

#### Protected Instance Properties

CustomXmlProcessing (inherited from Element) | Gets a value indicating whether the element is performing additional processing using the XmlNode that was used to initialize the element.
Location (inherited from Element) | Gets or sets the location in the build file where the element is defined.
XmlNode (inherited from Element) | Gets or sets the XML node of the element.

#### See Also

ZipTask Class | NAnt.Compression.Tasks Namespace