Bulky Data Is No Problem Thanks to Compression/Decompression in .NET 2.0

If you never need to use compression for your applications, consider yourself lucky. For the rest of us, the good news is that .NET 2.0 has two new classes to handle compression and decompression streams. Find out when, and how, to use these valuable facilities.

by Wei-Meng Lee

June 20, 2006

ne of the new namespaces in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework is System.IO.Compression. This new namespace contains two classes for data compression: DeflateStream and GZipStream. Both compression classes support lossless compression and decompression and are designed for dealing with streams.

Tip: For more background information on how the Deflate and GZip algorithms work, refer to http://www.gzip.org/deflate.html.

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