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How to: Compress Byte Array

To compress a byte array, do the following:

  1. Create a ZipArchive class instance.
  2. Call its ZipArchive.AddByteArray method to specify a byte array to compress.
  3. Call the ZipArchive.Save method to create an archive and save it to a stream.

This code snippet adds a byte array to an archive as an item with the name “myByteArray” and outputs zipped data to the stream.

View Example

using DevExpress.Compression;

public void ArchiveByteArray() {
    byte[] myByteArray = Enumerable.Repeat((byte)0x78, 10000).ToArray();
    using (Stream myZippedStream = new FileStream("ArchiveByteArray.zip", FileMode.Create)) {
        using (ZipArchive archive = new ZipArchive()) {
            archive.AddByteArray("myByteArray", myByteArray);
            archive.Save(myZippedStream);
        }
    }
}