Saw this in my twitter feed today, not sure if it's related but it's not too long to read and may be useful. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/07/17/httpclient-2-2-is-now-stable.aspx In the summary it mentions partial support for Silverlight and a rabbit hole link if you want to go down it. Greg
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Are you sending these files over HTTP? Doesn’t HTTP provide the ability to >> compress files between server and client? >> > > I had a quick look at some pages and docs on this. It seems to be > dependent on the IIS version, having the compression module installed and > the client side being "compression-compatible browsers". I don't know how > all this affects a WCF service and SL client. I'd have to do lots more > research to see if the burden of doing compression could safely and > completely moved to the environment. Id' be interested to hear anyone's > experience with this -- Greg >
