i want to transfer data over sockets and currently i am creating a memory stream.
i can also use a network stream.
Can anyone please help me understand the difference between c# network stream and memory stream?
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i want to transfer data over sockets and currently i am creating a memory stream.
i can also use a network stream.
Can anyone please help me understand the difference between c# network stream and memory stream?
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NetworkStreamis directly related to a socket; it does not know it’s own length, you cannot seek, and the read/write functions are directly bound to the receive/send APIs (and therefore, read and write are entirely unrelated to eachother). It can timeout, and a read can take a considerable time if waiting for more data.A
MemoryStreamis basically a wrapper over a localbyte[]. It has a known length (which can change), you can seek, and read/write are directly related: both increment the same position cursor, and you can write something, rewind, and then read it. All operations are very timely.It might be easier to ask “what are the similarities”, which would be simply: both have a read/write API, by virtue of being subclasses of
Stream.