UnmanagedMemoryStream.WriteByte(Byte) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.IO

Assembly:

System.Runtime.dll

Source:

UnmanagedMemoryStream.cs

Writes a byte to the current position in the file stream.

public:
 override void WriteByte(System::Byte value);

public override void WriteByte (byte value);

override this.WriteByte : byte -> unit

Public Overrides Sub WriteByte (value As Byte)

Parameters

value

Byte

A byte value written to the stream.

Exceptions

ObjectDisposedException

The stream is closed.

NotSupportedException

The underlying memory does not support writing.

-or-

An attempt is made to write to the stream and the CanWrite property is false.

-or-

The current position is at the end of the capacity of the stream.

IOException

The supplied value causes the stream exceed its maximum capacity.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to read from and write to unmanaged memory using the UnmanagedMemoryStream class. A block of unmanaged memory is allocated and de-allocated using the Marshal class. In this example, an UnmanagedMemoryStream object is passed to a method which checks the CanWrite property before attempting to write the data to the stream.

// Note: You must compile this sample using the unsafe flag.
// From the command line, type the following: csc sample.cs /unsafe
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;

unsafe class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        // Create some data to write.
        byte[] text = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetBytes("Data to write.");

        // Allocate a block of unmanaged memory.
        IntPtr memIntPtr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(text.Length);

        // Get a byte pointer from the unmanaged memory block.
        byte* memBytePtr = (byte*)memIntPtr.ToPointer();

        UnmanagedMemoryStream writeStream =
            new UnmanagedMemoryStream(
            memBytePtr, text.Length, text.Length, FileAccess.Write);

        // Write the data.
        WriteToStream(writeStream, text);

        // Close the stream.
        writeStream.Close();

        // Create another UnmanagedMemoryStream for reading.
        UnmanagedMemoryStream readStream =
            new UnmanagedMemoryStream(memBytePtr, text.Length);

        // Display the contents of the stream to the console.
        PrintStream(readStream);

        // Close the reading stream.
        readStream.Close();

        // Free up the unmanaged memory.
        Marshal.FreeHGlobal(memIntPtr);
    }

    public static void WriteToStream(UnmanagedMemoryStream writeStream, byte[] text)
    {
        // Verify that the stream is writable:
        // By default, UnmanagedMemoryStream objects do not have write access,
        // write access must be set explicitly.
        if (writeStream.CanWrite)
        {
            // Write the data, byte by byte
            for (int i = 0; i < writeStream.Length; i++)
            {
                writeStream.WriteByte(text[i]);
            }
        }
    }

    public static void PrintStream(UnmanagedMemoryStream readStream)
    {
        byte[] text = new byte[readStream.Length];
        // Verify that the stream is writable:
        // By default, UnmanagedMemoryStream objects do not have write access,
        // write access must be set explicitly.
        if (readStream.CanRead)
        {
            // Write the data, byte by byte
            for (int i = 0; i < readStream.Length; i++)
            {
                text[i] = (byte)readStream.ReadByte();
            }
        }

        Console.WriteLine(UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetString(text));
    }
}