Creating a byte array from a stream

Question

What is the prefered method for creating a byte array from an input stream?

Here is my current solution with .NET 3.5.

Stream s;
byte[] b;

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Answer 1

You can simply use ToArray() method of MemoryStream class, for ex-

MemoryStream ms = (MemoryStream)dataInStream;
byte[] imageBytes = ms.ToArray();