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

This is the function which I am using, tested and worked well. please bear in mind that 'input' should not be null and 'input.position' should reset to '0' before reading otherwise it will break the read loop and nothing will read to convert to array.

    public static byte[] StreamToByteArray(Stream input)
    {
        if (input == null)
            return null;
        byte[] buffer = new byte[16 * 1024];
        input.Position = 0;
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            int read;
            while ((read = input.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
            {
                ms.Write(buffer, 0, read);
            }
            byte[] temp = ms.ToArray();

            return temp;
        }
    }