Title: zlibVB.NET
Description: A translation from the original ZLIB library witten in C/C++ by Jean-loup Gailly. The present version supports only decompress GZIP files and streams.
Author: Paulo Santos
eMail: pjondevelopment@gmail.com
Environment: VB.NET 2005 (Visual Studio 2005)
Keywords: Compression, Decompression, GZIP

zlibVB.NET

DISCLAIMER

The Software is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. in no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.

Introduction

Some time ago I was woking on a project and needed to decompress a GZIP stream, searching on the Internet I found several commercial libraries to do the job, but very few for the .NET platform and the ones I've found too expensive for my poor budget.

Once again I rolled up my sleeve and coded my own.

I got the original zlib from Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler and made my port to VB.NET. The first version of this small library was written in .NET 1.1, this version is just a rewrite to the .NET 2.0.

Limitations

Currently the zlib.NET only decompress GZIP files and streams compressed using the deflate algorithm.