Question

I need to call a method that accepts a stream argument. The method loads text into the stream, which would normally be a file. I’d like to simply populate a string with the contents of the stream, instead of writing it to a file. How do I do this?

Answer 1

Use a MemoryStream with a StreamReader. Something like:

using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream()) using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ms)) {    // pass the memory stream to method    ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); // added from itsmatt    string s = sr.ReadToEnd(); }