Compressing and decompressing strings with BZip2 in .NET C#

There are times when you need to return a large text from a web service. The large text will then need to be handled by the recipient. In order to reduce the size of the message you can combine two simple techniques:

• Compress the string value with a compression algorithm, such as BZip2
• Base64 encode the resulting byte array

You will be able to send the base 64 encoded compressed string over the wire.

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