Duplicate Byte

Question

Hello experts,
I'm not familiar with byte arrays, anyhow will need to load and hold a fie as byte:

Public MyFileAsByte As Byte() = Nothing
Dim MyBR As BinaryReader = Nothing
Try
MyBR = New BinaryReader(File.OpenRead("D:\file.ext"))
Dim MyFI As New FileInfo("D:\file.ext")
MyFileAsByte = MyBR.ReadBytes(Convert.ToInt32(MyFI.Length))
Finally
If Not MyBR Is Nothing Then MyBR.Close()
End Try

Now each time I need to access MyFileAsByte, I have to make a copy of it, and pass the copy to some functions (because they might alter the passed byte)
So how do you make an exact copy of MyFileAsByte now? (with no more access to the original file ie "D:\file.ext"
Without altering the original byte (MyFileAsByte)?
Thanks :)

Answer 1

Try this:

 Dim MyCopy As Byte() = MyFileAsByte.ToArray