Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Using Memory Streams

Memory streams are special objects that act like file streams but that work in memory, providing the ability to manipulate binary data. The following code creates a MemoryStream with 2 Kbytes capacity and puts in a string:

To retrieve data you use a BinaryReader pointing to the MemoryStream as you saw in the paragraph for binary files. So, in this example, you can simply invoke ReadString as follows: