Reading Writing Bytes at a manageable rate
I have it on good authority that this is an excellent technique for transferring bytes from one file to another:
Dim fs As FileStream = New FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
Dim ws As FileStream = New FileStream(path, FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write)
Dim Buffer(102400) As Byte
Dim BytesRead As Integer
Dim Chunksize As Integer = 102400
BytesRead = fs.Read(Buffer, 0, Chunksize)
While BytesRead > 0
ws.Write(Buffer, 0, BytesRead)
BytesRead = fs.Read(Buffer, 0, Chunksize)
End While
In particular, this is superior to saving the contents of a file in a string variable if there is any chance that the total memory required to store the file might exceed the limits of available RAM.
Labels: .NET 2.0, Appending, Coding Technique, File IO