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Compress and uncompress with GZipStream

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.IO; using System.IO.Compression;     class Program     {         static void SaveCompressedFile(string filename, string data)         {             FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);             GZipStream compressionStream = new GZipStream(fileStream, CompressionMode.Compress);             StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(compressionStream);             writer.Write(data);             writer.Close();         }         static string LoadCompressedFile(string filename)         {             FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);             GZipStream compressionStream = new GZipStream(fileStream, CompressionMode.Decompress);             StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(compressionStream);             string data = reader.ReadToEnd();             reader.Close();             return data;         }         static void Main(string[] args)         {            string filename = "compressedFile.txt";            string sourceString = "asdf";            SaveCompressedFile(filename, sourceString);            FileInfo compressedFileData = new FileInfo(filename);            string recoveredString = LoadCompressedFile(filename);            recoveredString = recoveredString.Substring(0, recoveredString.Length / 100);         }     }