Reading from memory stream to string

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I am trying to write an object to an Xml string and take that string and save it to a DB  But first I need to get the string         private static readonly Encoding LocalEncoding   Encoding UTF8       public static string SaveToString lt T gt   T settings                Stream stream   null          TextWriter writer   null          string settingsString   null           try                       stream   new MemoryStream                 var serializer   new XmlSerializer typeof T                 writer   new StreamWriter stream  LocalEncoding                serializer Serialize writer  settings                var buffer   new byte stream Length                stream Read buffer  0   int stream Length                settingsString   LocalEncoding GetString buffer                     catch Exception ex                           If the action cancels we don t want to throw  just return null                    finally                       if  stream    null                  stream Close                 if writer    null                  writer Close                       return settingsString          This seems to work  the stream gets filled with bytes  But when I come to read it back into the buffer and then into the string    the buffer is filled with  0   Not sure what I doing wrong here guys

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string result   Encoding UTF8 GetString  stream as MemoryStream  ToArray

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In case of a very large stream length there is the hazard of memory leak due to Large Object Heap  i e  The byte buffer created by stream ToArray creates a copy of memory stream in Heap memory leading to duplication of reserved memory  I would suggest to use a StreamReader  a TextWriter and read the stream in chunks of char buffers   In netstandard2 0 System IO StreamReader has a method ReadBlock  you can use this method in order to read the instance of a Stream  a MemoryStream instance as well since Stream is the super of MemoryStream    private static string ReadStreamInChunks Stream stream  int chunkLength        stream Seek 0  SeekOrigin Begin       string result      using var textWriter   new StringWriter        using  var reader   new StreamReader stream                 var readChunk   new char chunkLength           int readChunkLength            do while  is useful for the last iteration in case readChunkLength  lt  chunkLength         do                       readChunkLength   reader ReadBlock readChunk  0  chunkLength               textWriter Write readChunk 0 readChunkLength             while  readChunkLength  gt  0            result   textWriter ToString               return result      NB  The hazard of memory leak is not fully eradicated  due to the usage of MemoryStream  that can lead to memory leak for large memory stream instance  memoryStreamInstance Size  85000 bytes   You can use Recyclable Memory stream  in order to avoid LOH  This is the relevant library

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If you d checked the results of stream Read  you d have seen that it hadn t read anything - because you haven t rewound the stream   You could do this with stream Position   0    However  it s easier to just call ToArray   settingsString   LocalEncoding GetString stream ToArray        You ll need to change the type of stream from Stream to MemoryStream  but that s okay as it s in the same method where you create it    Alternatively - and even more simply - just use StringWriter instead of StreamWriter  You ll need to create a subclass if you want to use UTF-8 instead of UTF-16  but that s pretty easy  See this answer for an example   I m concerned by the way you re just catching Exception and assuming that it means something harmless  by the way - without even logging anything  Note that using statements are generally cleaner than writing explicit finally blocks

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string result   System Text Encoding UTF8 GetString fs ToArray

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