Compressing a Folder Using Rar.exe via VB.NET? - vb.net

Question

I already extracted a folder with files from a RAR archive using the Unrar.exe I then want to edit the files within the extracted folder and then Re-rar that folder back into a password protected RAR archive. Either that, or append the existing RAR archive. Either way, the main goal is to update the files within the password protected archive. But I can't seem to figure out how to compress the folder again. My code as follows:
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
'establish the application directory and set it as a string to plugin later when needed
Dim MAINDIR As String = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory
Private Sub UNRAR()
'if extracted folder does NOT exist then
If Not (System.IO.Directory.Exists(MAINDIR & "Credentials\")) Then
'set variables
Dim SourceFile As String = MAINDIR & "Credentials.rar"
Dim PassWord As String = "locker101"
Dim DestinationFolder As String = MAINDIR
'if extracted folder does not exist then
If Not IO.Directory.Exists(DestinationFolder) Then IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(DestinationFolder)
'unrar it and create extracted folder with the files
Dim p As New Process
p.StartInfo.FileName = MAINDIR & "UnRAR.exe"
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "-p" & PassWord & " x " & Chr(34) & SourceFile & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & DestinationFolder & Chr(34)
p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
p.Start()
End If
End Sub
Private Sub EDIT(ByVal ACCOUNT, ByVal USER, ByVal PASS, ByVal URL)
Do Until (System.IO.Directory.Exists(MAINDIR & "Credentials\"))
'does nothing on loop and keeps checking for the folder to exist
Loop
'confirms that the folder exists then begins to write to the file(s) inside
If (System.IO.Directory.Exists(MAINDIR & "Credentials\")) Then
Dim file As System.IO.StreamWriter
file = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter(MAINDIR & "Credentials\" & ACCOUNT & ".txt", False)
file.WriteLine(USER)
file.WriteLine(PASS)
file.WriteLine(URL)
file.Close()
MsgBox("DONE")
Else
MsgBox("FAILED")
MsgBox("END existing")
MsgBox("END LOOP")
End If
APPENDRAR()
End Sub
Private Sub APPENDRAR()
End Sub
Private Sub DELETE()
'deletes the extracted folder, leaving behind only the password protected rar archive
My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteDirectory(MAINDIR & "Credentials", False, False)
End Sub
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
UNRAR()
'sets textboxes' texts as strings then sends those values to the EDIT sub
Dim btn As Button = DirectCast(sender, Button)
Dim ACCOUNT As String = TB_account.Text
Dim USER As String = TB_user.Text
Dim PASS As String = TB_pass.Text
Dim URL As String = TB_url.Text
EDIT(ACCOUNT, USER, PASS, URL)
End Sub
Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
End Sub
End Class
It should also be mentioned that I have the Unrar.exe and Rar.exe
files in the application folder. The same files found in the Winrar
directory. I added them to my project folder to use them.
A brief explanation of what is expected: The user will fill out 3 textboxes (username, password, website url) then they will click a button. The button takes the text in each textbox as values then creates strings of those values. It then passes these string values onto the sub which UNRARS the RAR archive, then once the folder is extracted, it either overwrites any existing file in that folder or creates a new one. Then after that, it should repack this newly edited folder back into a RAR archive with the same password as before, then deletes the extracted folder and the old RAR archive (UNLESS I can just append them back into the original archive, then I would not have to make an "updated" archive.)
UPDATE:
Dim SourceFile As String = MAINDIR & "Credentials\"
Dim PassWord As String = "locker101"
Dim DestinationFolder As String = MAINDIR
'if extracted folder does not exist then
'If Not IO.Directory.Exists(DestinationFolder) Then IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(DestinationFolder)
'unrar it and create extracted folder with the files
Dim p As New Process
Dim bbs As String = "-p" & PassWord & " u " & Chr(34) & MAINDIR & "ass.rar" & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & SourceFile & Chr(34)
p.StartInfo.FileName = MAINDIR & "Rar.exe"
p.StartInfo.Arguments = bbs
p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
p.Start()
This seems to work but it seems to not just add the "Credentials" folder but every folder leading up to it starting from "Projects".

Answer 1

I finally figured it out. Just in case anyone else needed the answer, here it is.
Dim p0 As New Process
Dim createo As String
createo = "-p" & <PASSWORD> & " u -ep " & Chr(34) & <arhive.rar> & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & <FILE TO REPLACE> & Chr(34)
p0.StartInfo.FileName = "Rar.exe"
p0.StartInfo.Arguments = createo
p0.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
p0.Start()
Example for the string
createo = "-p" & TB_BIGKEY.Text & " u -ep " & Chr(34) & Form1.MAINDIR & "Users\" & TB_ID.Text & ".rar" & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & Form1.MAINDIR & "Users\" & TB_ID.Text & ".txt" & Chr(34)
Which is read out 'tostring' as
-ppassyword u -ep "F:\Projects\PG\PG\bin\Debug\Users\Username.rar" "F:\Projects\PG\PG\bin\Debug\Users\Username.txt"
or <PASSWORD> <UPDATE> <EXLUDE PATHS> <RAR TO UPDATE> <FILE TO UPDATE WITH>
To not use a password, just remove the -ppassyword part.