Saving a bitmap into a MemoryStream

Question

Should I allocate the memory or just the object of the memory stream: Is this OK?

MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
bitmap.Save(memoryStream, Syste         


        

Answer 1

You don't need to preallocate memory.

You can get the size afterwards with memoryStream.Length.

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After you've done what you need to with your memoryStream, be sure to dispose it (or wrap it all in a using statement).