Initializes a new instance of the MemoryStream class with an expandable capacity initialized to zero.
(in mscorlib.dll)
'Usage
Dim instance As New MemoryStream()
'Declaration
Public Sub New
For an example of creating a file and writing text to a file, see How to: Write Text to a File. For an example of reading text from a file, see How to: Read Text from a File. For an example of reading from and writing to a binary file, see How to: Read and Write to a Newly Created Data File.
The CanRead, CanSeek, and CanWrite properties are all set to true.
The capacity of the current stream automatically increases when you use the SetLength method to set the length to a value larger than the capacity of the current stream.
This constructor exposes the underlying stream, which GetBuffer returns.
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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
.NET Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
.NET Compact Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0
XNA Framework
Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0
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