Why does MemoryStream.GetBuffer() always throw?
The following code will always throw UnuthorizedAccessException (MemoryStream's internal buffer cannot be accessed.) byte[] buf1 = { 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 }; var ms = new MemoryStream(buf1); byte[] buf2 = ms.GetBuffer(); // exception will be thrown here This is in a plain old console app and I'm running as an admin. I can't imagine a more privileged setting I could give this code. So why can't I get at this buffer? (And if nobody can, what's the point of the GetBuffer method?) The MSDN docs say To create a MemoryStream instance with a publicly visible buffer, use MemoryStream, MemoryStream(array[],