updated .gitignore to remove uneeded file references that were being ignored; Added CONTRIBUTING guide; Updated README with NuGet install instructions and Contributors section; Updated .nuspec file to add additional author;

Author: jawa-the-hutt

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@@ -152,6 +152,3 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/
 
 packages/
 *.nupkg
-/lz-string-sharp/lz-string-csharp.csproj
-/lz-string-sharp/LZString.cs
-/lz-string-sharp/LZString.cs

Diff for: CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Contributing to lz-string-csharp
+
+Thank you for your interest in contributing to lz-string-sharp!
+
+## Ways to contribute
+
+You can contribute to lz-string-sharp in a couple of different ways:
+
+- Submit issues through [issue tracker](https://github.com/jawa-the-hutt/lz-string-csharp/issues) on GitHub. 
+- If you wish to make code changes to lz-string-csharp, or contribute something new, please follow the [GitHub Forks / Pull requests model](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/): Fork the repo, make the change and propose it back by submitting a pull request.  We would ask that you add some tests with your pull request.

Diff for: README.md

@@ -5,15 +5,20 @@ C# Class implementation of LZ-String javascript
 
 Based on the LZ-String javascript found here:  http://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html
 
-Import the Class file into your project and change your namespace to match.
 
+## Installation
 
-Important:
+- Add the NuGet package to your project: `Install-Package LZString`
 
-If you are using this in a web service and are sending in strings that are compressed by the Javascript version of LZ-String, then you will want to use the Javascript function 'compressToUTF16'.
 
-If you use just the regular Javascript 'compress' function then depending on the data in the string, it will not decompress correctly on the C# side.
+## Please Note:
 
+If you are using this in a web service and are sending in strings that are compressed by the Javascript version of LZ-String, then you will want to use the Javascript function `compressToUTF16`.
 
-However, if you are using the 'compress' function built into this C# version, then you should be ok to use the regular 'decompress' function included.
+If you use just the regular Javascript `compress` function, then depending on the data in the string, it may not decompress correctly on the web service side.  However, if you are using the `compress` function built into lz-string-csharp, then you should be ok to use the regular `decompress` function included.
+
+
+## Contributors ##
+
+lz-string-csharp was created by [jawa-the-hutt](https://github.com/jawa-the-hutt), with several necessary improvements made by [christianrondeau](https://github.com/christianrondeau)
 

Diff for: src/lz-string-csharp.nuspec

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 		<id>LZString</id>
 		<version>$version$</version>
 		<title>LZString</title>
-		<authors>jawa-the-hutt</authors>
+		<authors>jawa-the-hutt,Christian Rondeau</authors>
 		<owners>jawa-the-hutt</owners>
 		<licenseUrl>https://github.com/jawa-the-hutt/lz-string-csharp/blob/master/LICENSE</licenseUrl>
 		<projectUrl>https://github.com/jawa-the-hutt/lz-string-csharp</projectUrl>