Zip for Silverlight Fundamentals

The C1.Silverlight.Zip.dll contains classes that provide data compression services. In Silverlight applications, data compression is especially useful when transferring between client and server, and also when storing application data in isolated storage (which is limited to 1MB by default). These classes are divided into three levels:

 

Level

Main Classes

Description

High

C1ZipFile, C1ZipEntry, C1ZipEntryCollection

Use these classes to create, open, and manage ZIP files. You can inspect the contents of ZIP files, test their integrity, add, delete, and extract entries to and from ZIP files.

Medium

C1ZStreamReader, C1ZStreamWriter

Use these classes to compress and expand data into and out of regular .NET streams (including memory, file, and network streams).

Low

ZStream

This is the lowest level class in C1Zip. It is a 100% C# implementation of Zlib, the popular data-compression library written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. ZStream is used by the higher level classes in C1Zip.


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