.NET GZipStream compress and decompress

Question

What is wrong with this code below. I always get FALSE, meaning after compression, decompressed data does not match original value.

public static bool Test()         


        

Answer 1

Here's my cleaned up version of the final solution:

  [Test]
  public void Test_zipping_with_memorystream()
  {
   const string sample = "This is a compression test of microsoft .net gzip compression method and decompression methods";
   var encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
   var data = encoding.GetBytes(sample);
   string sampleOut;
   byte[] cmpData;

   // Compress 
   using (var cmpStream = new MemoryStream())
   {
    using (var hgs = new GZipStream(cmpStream, CompressionMode.Compress))
    {
     hgs.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
    }
    cmpData = cmpStream.ToArray();
   }

   using (var decomStream = new MemoryStream(cmpData))
   {
    using (var hgs = new GZipStream(decomStream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
    {
     using (var reader = new StreamReader(hgs))
     {
      sampleOut = reader.ReadToEnd();
     }
    }
   }

   Assert.IsNotNullOrEmpty(sampleOut);
   Assert.AreEqual(sample, sampleOut);
  }