EDais :: Tutorials :: ZLib in VB
Written by Mike D Sutton
EDais@mvps.org
- 21.11.2002 -
What is ZLIB?:
ZLib is a fast and open source compression library which is legally unencumbered by software patents unlike other compression solutions such as Zip and LZW. The ZLib library and source code is available on its site here: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
Because of its ease of use and portability it has become widely accepted by the internet community and has even become core to a number of file formats such as SWF and PNG, so before you can properly look at either format you first need ZLib which is the focus of this article.
Chapter index:
- Chapter 1: Introduction and compression
- Chapter 2: Decompression and validation
- Chapter 3: Additional functionality
You can download this tutorial to disk for easier viewing offline as an Adobe Acrobat PDF:
And the code for all the chapters:
