Anyone know how to open pbo in c#

[Yoma 0]

Don't answer with "I think", "maybe" or the likes.

Don't answer with use another tool.

I want to know how to open it natively from c# to have a look at what's IN it, without needing to extract it.

It's for a project i have in mind.

[sakura_chan 9]

There are plenty of pbo 'viewers', such as pboview, that allow you to open and view textures and config files without extracting anything.

[Smartti 1]

You can find the PBO file format documentation in BIS Community Wiki.

[mikero 79]

the bottom line is you will have to write c# code to extract, at the very least, the header information of a pbo. the header contains filename and file size for each data block in the pbo

the way to do that, is of course up to you in C# code, but the structure of the pbo, and what you're needing to fread() is at the above link.

alternatively. you can use my depbo.dll. which as the name suggests does it for you and you just use API calls into the dll to get at what you want. mikero@norfolk.nf if you need further info (the dll's header file eg)

[Sniperwolf572 758]

Moving.