5 ways to compress/uncompress files in .NET

There are numerous compression algorithm out there for file compression. Here come 5 examples with how-to-do links from this blog.

Compressing individual files

The following algorithms can be used to compress a single file. E.g. source.txt will be compressed to source.txt.gz.

• Using the Deflate algorithm
• Using the GZip algorithm
• Using the Bzip2 algorithm

Compressing a group of files

The following algorithms can be used to group files and then compress the file group.

• Creating and reading Zip files
• Creating and reading Tar files

Read all posts dedicated to file I/O here.