Web Service Compression with .NET CF

Windows Mobile MVP’s Andreas Sjöström & Christian Forsberg have posted another great article over at businessanyplace.net.  This time they discuss compressing web service communications in order to save bandwidth, reduce costs, and potentially improve performance.  The article includes test results which show that in some scenarios, it’s faster to transfer uncompressed data over a cellular network than it is to transfer a smaller package but have to decompress it on the device.  As always, you’ll need to consider the specifics of your scenarios and decide which tradeoffs to make – this article will help you understand those tradeoffs and has lots of details on implementing compression should you decide to go that route.

[Author: Robert Levy]