Anders Hesselbom

Tag: Streams

Compressing a web request
2010-09-12

Perhaps you remember my old GZip example that illustrated how to use the GZip compression feature of the .NET Framework. To follow, read the Main function. It starts with a 118 character string that is compressed to a array of 208 bytes, than decompr [...]

Decompressing text
2010-06-12

This post shows how to compress a String to reduce the amount memory it consumes, and this post shows how to use the CompressText function. To be able to read the content of the string, it must be decompressed (or inflated) again. The DecompressText [...]

Compressing Genesis
2009-11-22

From here, I have downloaded Genesis to see what the GZip stream is good for. GZip is suitable for compressing text, because the file format is totally clean (uncompressed) and the Deflate algorithm manages therefore to compress text to a high ratio. [...]

Compressing text
2009-11-13

I had a situation today when I had to fit about 12.000 bytes of text in 5.000 byte storage. In .NET, this is so easy to do. Just a few lines of code is required to convert a long String to a short Byte array. Examine the CompressText function. This p [...]