how to convert System.Byte[] in System.IO.Stream?

Question

I can't convert byte to stream. Is there an easy way to do that?

Stream stream;
stream = (Stream) vByte; //something is going wrong in this part. 
//vByte is a byte variable

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4736155/how-do-i-convert-byte-to-stream-in-c — misak, May 24 '13 at 13:53
@Puce if this is a Java question I need to delete my answer and replace it with `ByteArrayInputStream`. — Evan L, May 24 '13 at 13:58
I wasn't specified, but seing that Java doesn't have a `System.Byte[]` type it is far more likely to be C#. I have therefore reverted the edit that tagged it Java. — meriton, May 24 '13 at 14:01

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '13 at 13:49

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You need to instantiate a MemoryStream object with the byte[]:

    MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(vByte);

answered May 24 '13 at 13:49

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '13 at 13:44

You cannot use cast expressions to convert something to a different type.

Instead, you can create a MemoryStream around the array.

In general, the cast operator changes the compile-time type of an object to a different type, provided that it actually is an instance of that type at runtime.
For a detailed explanation, see this blog post.

how to convert System.Byte[] in System.IO.Stream?

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