Avoiding dispose of underlying stream

Question

I\'m attempting to mock some file operations. In the \"real\" object I have:

StreamWriter createFile( string name )
{
  return new StreamWriter( Path.Combine         


        

Answer 1

If you subclass the MemoryStream, this will work but you have to call ManualDispose method to close the underlying stream.
I´m not sure but I think this object will be garbage-collected when it goes out of scope.

public sealed class ManualMemoryStream : MemoryStream
{
    protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
    }
    public void ManualDispose()
    {
        base.Dispose(true);
    }
}

Edit:
This is an alternative if you want the MemoryStream to be flushed and ready to be read from top.

public sealed class ManualMemoryStream : MemoryStream
{
    protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        Flush();
        Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    }
    public void ManualDispose()
    {
        base.Dispose(true);
    }
}