Why is WCF Stream response getting corrupted on write to disk?
- by Alvin S
I am wanting to write a WCF web service that can send files over the wire to the client. So I have one setup that sends a Stream response. Here is my code on the client:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string filename = System.Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\Picture.jpg";
if (File.Exists(filename))
File.Delete(filename);
StreamServiceClient client = new StreamServiceClient();
int length = 256;
byte[] buffer = new byte[length];
FileStream sink = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.CreateNew, FileAccess.Write);
Stream source = client.GetData();
int bytesRead;
while ((bytesRead = source.Read(buffer,0,length))> 0)
{
sink.Write(buffer,0,length);
}
source.Close();
sink.Close();
MessageBox.Show("All done");
}
Everything processes fine with no errors or exceptions. The problem is that the .jpg file that is getting transferred is reported as being "corrupted or too large" when I open it.
What am I doing wrong?
On the server side, here is the method that is sending the file.
public Stream GetData()
{
string filename = Environment.CurrentDirectory+"\\Chrysanthemum.jpg";
FileStream myfile = File.OpenRead(filename);
return myfile;
}
I have the server configured with basicHttp binding with Transfermode.StreamedResponse.
