How to serialize and deserialize any object to a compressed string

How to : Serialize and Deserialize a object into a compressed string

If you have ever needed to serialize some sort of object to a string for whatever reason we always trying to google some example of how to do it correctly. In the example below, I am going to serialize and compress a generic list to a string.

Serialization and Compression

        private static string CompressValue(object serializedValue)
        {
            try
            {
                BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

                using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    bf.Serialize(ms, serializedValue);

                    byte[] inbyt = ms.ToArray();

                    using (MemoryStream objStream = new MemoryStream())
                    {
                        using (DeflateStream objZS = new DeflateStream(objStream, CompressionMode.Compress))
                        {
                            objZS.Write(inbyt, 0, inbyt.Length);
                            objZS.Flush();
                            objZS.Close();

                            byte[] b = objStream.ToArray();

                            return Convert.ToBase64String(b);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch { return string.Empty; }
        }

Deserialize object

        private List

And that is it, you can now serialized any object into a string and deserialize into your object again.

Happy coding guys...