There are quite a few libraries out there that adds zip decompression/compression to Silverlight. However, common to them all is that they add significantly to the size of the resulting .xap. It turns out that Silverlight 2.0 already has zip decompression built-in. It uses this to uncompress the .xa...

Zip multiples files in folder using Asp.net 2.0 C# System.IO.Compression class progammatically

This article will show you how to work with plain objects in Silverlight code, and use attributes to have those values automatically persisted in IsolatedStorage, or a compressed version of IsolatedStorage. You can also use this approach to define your own targets, all without writing any plumbing c...

Maximize the user's IsolatedStorage capacity in Silverlight applications. This article provides a way to use stream compression in Silverlight to shrink your storage payload, by porting ICSharpCode's SharpZipLib project into Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

If you have a hosted site, sometimes you cannot change settings on the IIS server. This article shows you how to enable GZip compression directly within ASP, bypassing the server settings. I used this code on my site and it works great.

This article explains a common pitfall in DeflateStream and hos this can be solved - a must read for anyone who is using this class.

Compress your pages, css, js and WebResources.axd files for better performance in ASP.NET

Decrease your website's bandwidth requirements by turning on HTTP Compression on your IIS 6.0 web server.

Compress the strings using a GZipStream and then decompress them later when needed.

For a just a few lines of code in your .htaccess file file you can shave off at least 50% of your non-binary bandwidth usage and make your pages load substantially and noticeably faster, all without changing a single line in any of your pages. It's crazy, but it's true!

First I tested the GZipStream and then the DeflateStream. I expected a minor difference because the two compression methods are different, but the result astonished me. I measured the DeflateStream to 41% faster than GZip.