How to use GZip compression for Windows Phone 7

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A smooth and fast user experience is definitely the main argument for a mobile application. With Silverlight as main technology of UX development for Windows Phone, it's easier to make an application smooth and fast, but sometimes when your application has to retrieve a big amount of data that you can't avoid, even few KB in less for each request to the server is a better experience for the user. Web browsers use for a long time the GZip technology to compress the data transferred between the client and the server. The native WebClient does not support this feature. But you can use the GZipWebClient created by Morten Nielsen in order to enable it. Jeff Wilcox talks about this package on his blog.

How to install the package?

The package SharpGIS.GZipWebClient is available via NuGet. Just right click on your project, then Manage NuGet Packages. and search for SharpGIS.GZipWebClient.

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