That's my team. :) Unfortunately, while we have deflate/gzip (uncompress-only) support for Silverlight for HTTP responses, we didn't add ZIP compression support for Silverlight.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Kennedy Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 11:37 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Deflate Zip library care Saw this in my twitter feed today, not sure if it's related but it's not too long to read and may be useful. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/07/17/httpclient-2-2-is-now-stable.aspx In the summary it mentions partial support for Silverlight and a rabbit hole link if you want to go down it. Greg On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Are you sending these files over HTTP? Doesn't HTTP provide the ability to compress files between server and client? I had a quick look at some pages and docs on this. It seems to be dependent on the IIS version, having the compression module installed and the client side being "compression-compatible browsers". I don't know how all this affects a WCF service and SL client. I'd have to do lots more research to see if the burden of doing compression could safely and completely moved to the environment. Id' be interested to hear anyone's experience with this -- Greg
