Export Compressed Customizations via API

I blogged a while ago about the fact that when you export customizations from the web interface they are downloaded in a compressed file.  That capability is not just limited to the user interface you can request the exported file via the API as well using the ExportCompressedAllXml message.

EmbededFileName property on the request determines the name of the customization file inside the zip.  To be consistent with what happens when you use the export from the user interface that would be set to a value of "customizations.xml"

The response object contains a ExportedCompressedXml which is a byte[] array that contains the compressed file data.