CopyTo
Copies a stream to another stream using a passed buffer. it also has an overload to pass a buffer length.
Source
/// <summary>
/// Copies an stream to another stream using the buffer passed.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="source">source stream</param>
/// <param name="destination">destination stream</param>
/// <param name="buffer">buffer to use during copy</param>
/// <returns>number of bytes copied</returns>
public static long CopyTo(this Stream source, Stream destination, byte[] buffer)
{
long total=0;
int bytesRead;
while (true)
{
bytesRead = source.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
if (bytesRead == 0)
return total;
total += bytesRead;
destination.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Copies an stream to another stream using the buffer with specified size.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="source">source stream</param>
/// <param name="destination">destination stream</param>
/// <param name="bufferLen">length of buffer to create</param>
/// <returns>number of bytes copied</returns>
public static long CopyTo(this Stream source, Stream destination, int bufferLen)
{
return source.CopyTo(destination, new byte[bufferLen]);
}
Example
Stream fSource=File.OpenRead(@"C:\test.bin");
Stream fDest=File.Create(@"C:\CopyOfTest.bin");
fSource.CopyTo(fDest,10*1024);