Bitmap/Image compression

[TN]

I was wondering, is it possible to tell Bitmap to use some kind of
compressed format, such as a JPEG? I am sending Bitmap over a network
and was interesting in compressing it.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Well, how are you compressing it? Also, if you are concerned with the
integrity of the data, you might not want to use JPG, as it is a lossy
compression algorithm.

I would just serialize the bitmap to a memory stream, and then use one
of the compression streams in the System.IO.Compression namespace.