Best way to convert Stream (of unknown length) to byte array, in .NET?
- by Frank Hamming
Hello, I have the following code to read data from a Stream (in this case, from a named pipe) and into a byte array:
// NPSS is an instance of NamedPipeServerStream
int BytesRead;
byte[] StreamBuffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE]; // defined elsewhere (less than total possible message size, though)
MemoryStream MessageStream = new MemoryStream();
do
{
BytesRead = NPSS.Read(StreamBuffer, 0, StreamBuffer.Length);
MessageStream.Write(StreamBuffer, 0, BytesRead);
} while (!NPSS.IsMessageComplete);
byte[] Message = MessageStream.ToArray(); // final data
Could you please take a look and let me know if it can be done more efficiently or neatly? Seems a bit messy as it is, using a MemoryStream. Thanks!
