Is there a text compression library for .NET?

Question

I a looking for a library that can compress text. Not short string but rather pages. Is there any known library or opensource code?

Answer 1

You may take a look at GZipStream and/or DeflateStream.

Answer 2

.Net has a couple of classes built-in for compression/decompression, Gzip and Deflate.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.gzipstream.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.deflatestream.aspx

Example usage: http://www.csharphelp.com/2007/09/compress-and-decompress-strings-in-c/

Answer 3

there is SharpZipLib