ASP.Net MVC - Read File from HttpPostedFileBase without save

Question

I am uploading the file by using file upload option. And i am directly send this file from View to Controller in POST method like,

    [HttpPost]
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Answer 1

A slight change to Thangamani Palanisamy answer, which allows the Binary reader to be disposed and corrects the input length issue in his comments.

string result = string.Empty;

using (BinaryReader b = new BinaryReader(file.InputStream))
{
  byte[] binData = b.ReadBytes(file.ContentLength);
  result = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(binData);
}