Interesting, but sadly for me I evetually found this: *Developers working on Silverlight or Windows Phone 7.x cannot use this library at all. Since these platforms don’t support native libraries, there is no way to get the current code base to work. In theory Microsoft could port the libraries to a managed version, but Immo Landwerth of Microsoft says that is not currently planning on doing that.*
I was hoping for a library that could be reliably used on both the server and Silverlight client side. Greg K On 5 November 2013 04:56, David Burela <[email protected]> wrote: > Delayed response, but there is also the new portable compression library > from Microsoft on NuGet > http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Bcl.Compression/ > > Here is an article from MSDN that describes how to use it > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/08/22/portable-compression-is-now-stable.aspx > > -David Burela > Infragistics > > > On 3 October 2013 22:52, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks people J >> >> >> >> Anthony >> >> Melbourne StuffUps…learn from others, share with others! >> >> http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Ideas-Incubator-Stuffups-Failed-Startups/ >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> NOTICE : The information contained in this electronic mail message is >> privileged and confidential, and is intended only for use of the addressee. >> If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any >> disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication >> is strictly prohibited. >> If you have received this communication in error, please notify the >> sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or >> disclosing it. (*13POrtC*) >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh >> *Sent:* Friday, 4 October 2013 10:32 AM >> *To:* ozDotNet >> *Subject:* Re: compression library >> >> >> >> Beware that System.IO.Compression before 4.5 can only deflate/inflate >> streams, and although the two provided algorithms are standards, I never >> dared use them outside of the boundary of a single app. From 4.5 you get >> ZIP support. >> >> >> >> I am currently using free SharpZipLib on the server side on combination >> with costly ComponentOne C1Zip class on the Silverlight client side. I have >> found that server to client works correctly, but in the other direction I >> have received decompress errors which hints at subtle and treacherous >> incompatibilities. >> >> >> >> I spent hours trying to get SharpZipLib to compile for Silverlight but >> gave up in tears and had to use C1Zip. >> >> >> >> To confuse matters there is also Ionic.Zlib which I found years after >> SharpZipLib and I actually prefer it these days because of a clearer API >> with some nice convenient high-level methods. I also managed to compile >> Zlib for Silverlight quite easily and I'm using it both sides of another >> Server-Silverlight app pair. Of course I feel much safer using the same >> library on both sides and wouldn't expect incompatibilities like previously >> mentioned. >> >> >> >> Greg >> >> >> >> On 4 October 2013 09:16, David Kean <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> System.IO.Compression namespace. >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *[email protected] >> *Sent:* Thursday, October 3, 2013 4:11 PM >> *To:* ozDotNet >> *Subject:* compression library >> >> >> >> Anyoe suggest a library to compress/decompress byte data? >> >> >> >> Anthony >> >> Melbourne StuffUps…learn from others, share with others! >> >> http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Ideas-Incubator-Stuffups-Failed-Startups/ >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> NOTICE : The information contained in this electronic mail message is >> privileged and confidential, and is intended only for use of the addressee. >> If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any >> disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication >> is strictly prohibited. >> If you have received this communication in error, please notify the >> sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or >> disclosing it. (*13POrtC*) >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> > >
