'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Shared Function Decompress( _
   ByVal buffer() As Byte, _
   ByVal offset As Integer, _
   ByVal count As Integer _
) As Byte()

'Usage
 
Dim buffer() As Byte
Dim offset As Integer
Dim count As Integer
Dim value() As Byte
 
value = GZipCompressedStream.Decompress(buffer, offset, count)

public static byte[] Decompress( 
   byte[] buffer,
   int offset,
   int count
)

Parameters

buffer

An array of bytes to decompress. A maximum of count bytes are taken from this array and decompressed.

offset

The byte offset in buffer at which to begin taking the data to decompress.

count

The maximum number of bytes to be taken from buffer.

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