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Data Compression

Storing content in compressed format?

         

RossWal

6:43 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Not sure if I have the right forum or not. Anyway, I'm working on a project that will deliver paper based reports on demand over the web. There are alot of them, and they have a relatively large proportion of white space. This makes me think they would compress quite well. I'd like to store them in a compressed format, then uncompress them before running them through an asp.net page to insert print media css, etc.

Maybe this is the right forum after all. I guess my question has become:

Are there compression/decompression classes provided in the .net framework? As reports are being catalo(u)ged I could compress them, and then uncompress them as they're being served.

Thanks,
Ross

macrost

6:47 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

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RossWal,
Hrmmmm, I haven't really delved into .net yet, but does .net offer the ability for gzip? If not, you could look at a third party, like xcompress (if I remember right.)

Mac