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The following post is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of my upcoming book, Designing Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML. Keep reading to learn how you can receive a free copy of the full chapter.
Storing large amounts of data can take up a large amount of disk space. Data compression encodes information in a way that reduces its overall size. There are two general types of compression. Lossy compression may not preserve all of the original information and is often used in image, video, and audio compression. Lossless compression preserves the full fidelity of the original data set.