Compression and Decompression of Files using Visual Basic 2005
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by Abhishek Kumar Singh
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Implementation of DeflateStream

DeflateStream can be implemented similar to the implementation of GZipStream. You only need to replace GZipStream with DeflateStream class name in the above example to get Deflate compression.

Run the application and check the size of compressed files in both compression schemes. You will definitely see variation in ratio of compressed file size with respect to actual file size.


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Title: Compression and Decompression   
Name: Padma
Date: 5/29/2008 2:25:36 AM
Comment:
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Title: Senior Programmer/Analyst   
Name: Guillermo
Date: 5/14/2008 10:23:12 AM
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I am very thankful for this article because it helped me very very much...
Title: Senior Programmer/Analyst   
Name: J Eaves
Date: 5/12/2008 11:58:09 AM
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Great article and easy to follow. However, 2 issues. 1)I couldn't get code to work with CompressData() as MemoryStream. And 2)After I created a zip file and tried to open with WinZip 11, I get the following error "Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive."
Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions.
Thanks.
Title: Compression and Decompression of Files using Visual Basic 2005   
Name: Gary
Date: 3/12/2008 10:38:09 AM
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omg thank you. MSDN sample is complete shite in comparison
Title: Compression and Decompression of Files using Visual Basic 2005   
Name: Cammie McGinty
Date: 1/27/2008 3:04:27 PM
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Thank you for a clear and straightforward example.
Title: Reply to: Bloated results   
Name: Abhishek (Author)
Date: 11/21/2007 2:58:05 AM
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hi Jacob,
BTW which type of files you are trying to compress and decompress?
Are you using the byte counters properly if you are not decompressing entire compressed file at a time?
Title: Reply to: Give me idea   
Name: Abhishek (Author)
Date: 11/21/2007 2:55:50 AM
Comment:
Hi Netra,
sorry for late reply, i had stuck in some stuff.
You can achieve entire folder compression using DeflateStream but for this you have to implement your own logic to compress each file one by one inside the folder and then you can make a bundle of all compress files and also there should be a information file which should keep details of each file name, size etc which you can use while decompressing.
Frankly saying i have done this by myself but had some finding on this.
hope it helps you. If you got anyt idea on this please let me know. I will be thankful to you.
thanks.
Title: Bloated results   
Name: Jacob Kennedy
Date: 11/2/2007 5:29:13 PM
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I'm implementing your DecompressByte on a folder of files that were zipped using GZipStream, and it's working a lot better than what I had, but my decompressed files are ending up over a hundred times bigger than the original non-compressed files... any ideas?
Title: Give me idea   
Name: Netra
Date: 10/22/2007 5:26:55 AM
Comment:
Hi abhi,
i want to zip the folder containg files for eg. i have folder named ABC and in that folder i have 3 .txt files , i want to zip that ABC folder not only the files in that.
Can i done it at runtime , plz give me the idea. And i want to do it by using DeflateStream.
Title: Excellent idea....   
Name: Rajiv Tripathi
Date: 7/5/2007 3:40:00 PM
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Hi Abhi,
That's a really gr8 idea. Thx for sharing it with all of us.That has helped a lot. i hope you remember me by my name, I implemented your idea and it produced remarkable result.
thx & all the best!!
Title: rijovg@gmail.com   
Name: rijo
Date: 6/28/2007 6:23:07 AM
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i need an help would u plz contact on this id
Title: Re: File Extension   
Name: Abhishek Kumar Singh
Date: 6/15/2007 7:52:18 PM
Comment:
As the gzipstream and deflatestream are stream based classes, one way would be- you can add file exetension in byte() at first/last position before compression. Then read those bytes to get the file extenstion and remove those bytes before writing the file.
Usually you need to know the extension of file by any mean while writing decompressed file. If compressed byte() are being transferred using remote methods you can send file extension as extra parameter in the method.

Thanx.
Title: file extension   
Name: Theuns
Date: 6/14/2007 10:45:01 AM
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How do you keep the file extension when compressing it?
Title: My Feedback   
Name: Sunny Adeshara
Date: 6/8/2007 8:53:00 AM
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I am very thankful for this article because it helped me very much.
Title: Good Article Keep it up   
Name: Anjaiah Keesari
Date: 5/24/2007 9:05:54 AM
Comment:
Even I am working on Compression and Decompression with C# code your Article is very good. You Explained concepts very nice thanks keesari_anjaiah@yahoo.co.in
Title: I m proud of my best frined   
Name: Vinit Pratap Singh
Date: 5/23/2007 9:13:57 AM
Comment:
Hi... i don't know Visual Basic.. but i think its a very big implement by you.. i m very proud of u.. keep it up... with lots of new adventure.. . vinitpratap@gmail.com

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