Compression and Decompression of Files using Visual Basic 2005
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by Abhishek Kumar Singh
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Limitations of GZipStream and DeflateStream in .NET Framework 2.0

Comparing with popular third-party products in capability, GZipStream has certain limitations.

·         One of the major limitations is that you can not assign a name to the gzip archive header. It means you have to note the file name and its extension at the time of compression and send it to the destination end where decompression is to be done. Because if file type (extension) is not known to the destination end, then it will be difficult to open the decompressed file in its proper program. This limitation is due to the fact that GZipStream class follows the GZip specification in which declaring a name is optional. Hence, GZipStream class does not include file name in its header as metadata. Whereas we can change the headers to include file names in ZIP contents by using other class like NamedGZipStream, etc.

·         Though files compressed by GZip and Deflate algorithms can be successfully decompresses by other archivers (WinZip or WinRar etc.). DeflateStream and GZipStream classes ca not be used to decompress files which are compressed by other compression archivers like WinZip or WinRar. This is because WinZip/WinRar uses advance header metadata definition while writing compressed files.

·         These algorithms should not be used to compress files which are already compressed by some other compression algorithm.

·         Maximum 4 GB of streams can be used with these archive methods.


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Title: soulpink   
Name: soul
Date: 2013-01-28 1:55:01 AM
Comment:
Mr. Singh, you have this kind of helping-hand and mind tutorial. It helps a lot. Thank you.
Title: soulpink   
Name: soul
Date: 2013-01-28 1:51:59 AM
Comment:
awesome. it helps a lot. thank you so much.excellent work guys..
Title: ghufran   
Name: kamal
Date: 2012-09-06 12:20:10 AM
Comment:
i have need for demo file and source code
Title: Thanks   
Name: masterkreatif.com
Date: 2012-06-16 10:08:54 AM
Comment:
Amazing, thanks a lot.. this is very usefu
Title: Re   
Name: rajanrufus
Date: 2011-12-27 8:03:35 PM
Comment:
Excellent post and informative. Thanks for your sharing.
Title: Gzip   
Name: Ron
Date: 2011-01-09 10:58:31 PM
Comment:
Can you help me with that problem?

how ca I compress database with a size of 1 gigabyte or more than.

thank you!
Title: Gzip   
Name: John Michael
Date: 2011-01-09 10:49:33 PM
Comment:
I think your code is Useless,
I tried it but it can not compress a large file such as database with a size of 1 Gigabyte or more than.
Title: lklkl   
Name: lkl
Date: 2011-01-02 8:29:17 AM
Comment:
not to bad
Title: Forgot something   
Name: Jake the snake
Date: 2010-11-12 3:49:28 PM
Comment:
Nice code, this is very useful. However, there is an error in your code. You are not assigning the values selected in the OpenFileDialog and FolderBrowserDialog to the text windows so when you select a file nothing shows up in the text box and same with the folder.

Code fails
Title: file compression/decompression in VC++ 2005   
Name: jay
Date: 2010-10-22 8:30:06 PM
Comment:
hello
i like your tuturial
i want your help in file compression
how i can write the file compression/decompression code in Visual C++ 2005
please help me
my email id jaydeep.baravkar@gmail.com
Title: Compressed (zipped) Folders Error   
Name: Rahul
Date: 2010-05-24 7:35:33 AM
Comment:
Hi, thx for such a nice article, i have implemented the code in my vb.net application and able to generate .zip file but unfortunately i couldn't ablr to open or extract content of zip file, it is throwing error as below :
The Compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid or corrupted.

Could you please help? (Rahul_Chitte@syntelinc.com)
Title: file compression/decompression in VC++ 2005   
Name: jay
Date: 2010-02-05 12:36:14 AM
Comment:
hello
i like your tuturial
i want your help in file compression
how i can write the file compression/decompression code in Visual C++ 2005
please help me
my email id jaydeep.baravkar@gmail.com
Title: file compression/decompression in VC++ 2005   
Name: jay
Date: 2010-02-03 1:35:12 PM
Comment:
hello
i like your tuturial
i want your help in file compression
how i can write the file compression/decompression code in Visual C++ 2005
please help me
Title: Decompressed files are huge   
Name: Raj
Date: 2009-12-10 11:17:57 AM
Comment:
Great tutorial Abhishek!
One problem that I am noticing is that when decompressing a file the file becomes almost 100 times the size that it should be. Any idea on where am I going wrong here ?
Regards,
-Raj
Title: Very Impressive   
Name: Paul Myers
Date: 2009-09-22 10:14:52 AM
Comment:
Thank you for this sample code. It is well written and very understandable.
Title: request   
Name: swarup saha
Date: 2009-06-30 12:49:22 PM
Comment:
dear bhaia,can i get C# code of image compression and decompression.if possible pls send me in this address:
swarup_04cse@yahoo.com
Title: Thank you   
Name: Mikael
Date: 2009-06-30 9:49:22 AM
Comment:
A thousand thanks, works perfect.
Title: Tanks man   
Name: Tim
Date: 2009-05-05 5:00:45 AM
Comment:
Hello, thank you for the tutorial, it was great, i love it.
i have som problem but i figure it out, so, now it works, and thanks agen...
Title: Training   
Name: Obama - USA President
Date: 2009-02-05 3:57:12 PM
Comment:
Great of you to share...yes we can.
Title: help me yaar as soon as   
Name: prince walia
Date: 2008-11-23 12:11:07 PM
Comment:
hello frnd,,,i m doing mca,,my sar give me aa project to cpmrss the files,,,but my project is nt complete,,plz send me the project oe help me,,
Title: Compression   
Name: Avaloan
Date: 2008-11-23 3:34:22 AM
Comment:
I think it's good but I don't see any compresses just a expand of file size.!
Title: Compression   
Name: Sree
Date: 2008-10-30 2:21:43 AM
Comment:
I have used the code in the script task in SQL Integration services. First it gives me an error at the step "objMemStream.Length" saying: disallows implicit conversion from Long to Int.
So i have tried type conversions.
It gets executed and a zip file is created but when i try to decompress it, it says it is bad or invalid file.
Can anybody help me on this?
Title: Compression   
Name: Stacy
Date: 2008-10-02 4:24:41 AM
Comment:
Hi,

I am working on an asp application and I have a string that needs to be passed from script file to asp page, but the string breaks coz of its large size.Can this function be used for the same.Also how do i convert string to byte.

Please reply soon
Title: compression   
Name: mike
Date: 2008-09-04 5:31:06 AM
Comment:
it can't comprees large file...65k is the limit..i hv tried compressing 90k file(TXT FILE)..bt to my surprise the compressed file is showg a larger memory thn its initial size..and there is no or a very little difference between gzip and deflate.am i doin any mistake here.?.plz help!!!
Title: compression   
Name: Jeevitha
Date: 2008-08-29 9:39:38 AM
Comment:
Nice Article. It's very useful to me. Thanks a lot.
Title: Compression and Decompression   
Name: Padma
Date: 2008-05-29 2:25:36 AM
Comment:
Article is very good....it helped me a lot...can u give article abt transferring an image file in vb6 using udp protocol....
mailid:belpadma@gmail.com
PH:080 22195854
Title: Senior Programmer/Analyst   
Name: Guillermo
Date: 2008-05-14 10:23:12 AM
Comment:
I am very thankful for this article because it helped me very very much...
Title: Senior Programmer/Analyst   
Name: J Eaves
Date: 2008-05-12 11:58:09 AM
Comment:
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: Cammie McGinty
Date: 2008-01-27 3:04:27 PM
Comment:
Thank you for a clear and straightforward example.
Title: Reply to: Bloated results   
Name: Abhishek (Author)
Date: 2007-11-21 2:58:05 AM
Comment:
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: 2007-11-21 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: 2007-11-02 5:29:13 PM
Comment:
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: 2007-10-22 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: 2007-07-05 3:40:00 PM
Comment:
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: 2007-06-28 6:23:07 AM
Comment:
i need an help would u plz contact on this id
Title: Re: File Extension   
Name: Abhishek Kumar Singh
Date: 2007-06-15 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: 2007-06-14 10:45:01 AM
Comment:
How do you keep the file extension when compressing it?
Title: My Feedback   
Name: Sunny Adeshara
Date: 2007-06-08 8:53:00 AM
Comment:
I am very thankful for this article because it helped me very much.
Title: Good Article Keep it up   
Name: Anjaiah Keesari
Date: 2007-05-24 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: 2007-05-23 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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