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We will explore the process of creating a tar file in ASP.NET 7, which is a novel feature of this framework. Let's delve into this topic by following an example. Initially, we need to open Visual Studio, where we already have a console application. In the program.cs file, we will add a reference to System.Formats.Tar to access the TarFile class, which contains two useful methods: CreateFromDirectory and ExtractToDirectory. Let's begin with CreateFromDirectory method, which necessitates three parameters, namely sourceDirectoryName, destination, and includeBaseDirectory. The sourceDirectoryName parameter specifies the directory path that we want to transform into a tar file. Destination parameter indicates where we want to save the tar file. The includeBaseDirectory parameter can be set to true or false; we choose true if we wish to include the root folder; otherwise, we choose false. After passing all the necessary parameters to the function, we create two folders named so...