Quick way to get the contents of a MemoryStream as an ASCII string

Question

I have a JSON string in a MemoryStream. I am using the following code to get it out as an ASCII string:

MemoryStream memstream = new MemoryStream(); 
/* Write a          


        

Answer 1

You could use the ToArray method:

using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
{
    /* Write a JSON string to stream here */

    string jsonString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(stream.ToArray());
}