binarywriter and buffer size?

[Guest]

Check the following code

///Buffer to store the data
byte[] data = new byte[DEFAULT_BUFF_SIZE];

///Create a memory stream from the buffer
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream(data);

///Binary writer
BinaryWriter newData = new BinaryWriter(memStream);

///Write the data
newData.Write(Convert.ToUInt32(nResourceID));

///need to identify available free size in data
///newData.Write(Convert.ToUInt32(nResLength));

/// write(byte[], index, count);
newData.Write(
buffer having data more than DEFAULT_BUFF_SIZE,
anywhere in the memory buff,
should fill up to DEFAULT_BUFF_SIZE);


Now the problem is what is the best possible solution to know how much data
is written in the buffer i.e. "data" variable?

I need to stick to the DEFAULT_BUFF_SIZE limit while writing the data

BinaryWriter gives me more flexibility to write any kind of data?
MemoryStream only accepts the byte kind of data? which is not readily
available.

 

[Guest]

Check the following code

///Buffer to store the data
byte[] data = new byte[DEFAULT_BUFF_SIZE];

///Create a memory stream from the buffer
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream(data);

///Binary writer
BinaryWriter newData = new BinaryWriter(memStream);

///Write the data
newData.Write(Convert.ToUInt32(nResourceID));

///need to identify available free size in data
///newData.Write(Convert.ToUInt32(nResLength));

/// write(byte[], index, count);
newData.Write(
buffer having data more than DEFAULT_BUFF_SIZE,
anywhere in the memory buff,
should fill up to DEFAULT_BUFF_SIZE);

Now the problem is what is the best possible solution to know how much data
is written in the buffer i.e. "data" variable?

MemoryStream has 3 properties:
Capacity
Length
Position

Do they give you what you want ?

Arne

 

[Guest]

MemoryStream has 3 properties:
Capacity
Length
Position

Do they give you what you want ?

Arne

Thanks for your reply but they don't seem to work, since i have assigned the
buffer it is giving me the same amount of value in this case it is 1000.

Moreover i have tried even after flushing the binarystream.
Still i don't find any way to identify the amount of bytes used up.
In C since every write used to return the number of bytes written, something
similar i am looking atleast?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply but they don't seem to work, since i have assigned the
buffer it is giving me the same amount of value in this case it is 1000.

Weird.

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace E
{
public class MainClass
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
byte[] data = new byte[1000];
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream(data);
BinaryWriter newData = new BinaryWriter(memStream);
newData.Write(123);
Console.WriteLine(memStream.Position);
}
}
}

writes 4 at PC !

Arne