How to compress and decompress strings in C#

When developing applications you will often need to deal with strings. And because string objects are costly in terms of performance, you will often want to compress your string content, i.e., the data inside your string objects, to reduce the payload. There are several libraries available to do this but two popular techniques are GZip and Brotli.

In this article we’ll discuss how you can compress and decompress strings using the GZip and Brotli algorithms in C#. To work with the code examples provided here, you should have Visual Studio 2022 installed in your system. If you don’t already have a copy, you can download Visual Studio 2022 here.

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