BinaryFormatter with MemoryStream Question
- by Changeling
I am testing BinaryFormatter to see how it will work for me and I have a simple question:
When using it with the string HELLO, and I convert the MemoryStream to an array, it gives me 29 dimensions, with five of them being the actual data towards the end of the dimensions:
BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
byte[] bytes;
string originalData = "HELLO";
bf.Serialize(ms, originalData);
ms.Seek(0, 0);
bytes = ms.ToArray();
returns
- bytes {Dimensions:[29]} byte[]
[0] 0 byte
[1] 1 byte
[2] 0 byte
[3] 0 byte
[4] 0 byte
[5] 255 byte
[6] 255 byte
[7] 255 byte
[8] 255 byte
[9] 1 byte
[10] 0 byte
[11] 0 byte
[12] 0 byte
[13] 0 byte
[14] 0 byte
[15] 0 byte
[16] 0 byte
[17] 6 byte
[18] 1 byte
[19] 0 byte
[20] 0 byte
[21] 0 byte
[22] 5 byte
[23] 72 byte
[24] 69 byte
[25] 76 byte
[26] 76 byte
[27] 79 byte
[28] 11 byte
Is there a way to only return the data encoded as bytes without all the extraneous information?
