'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Shared Function Decompress( _

   ByVal buffer() As Byte _

) As Byte()

'Usage
 
Dim buffer() As Byte

Dim value() As Byte

 

value = GZipCompressedStream.Decompress(buffer)

public static byte[] Decompress( 

   byte[] buffer

)

Parameters

buffer

An array of bytes to decompress.

Return Value

If the original data contained within the decompressed byte array was a string, then it is possible to retrieve the string using the System.Text.Encoding.GetBytes(System.Char[]) method of the System.Text.Encoding class.

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

GZipCompressedStream Class
GZipCompressedStream Members
Overload List