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UnmanagedMemoryStream Class
Visual Studio 2008
Provides access to unmanaged blocks of memory from managed code.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
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.
// 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.Text; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; unsafe class TestWriter { static void Main() { // Create some data to read and write. byte[] message = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetBytes("Here is some data."); // Allocate a block of unmanaged memory and return an IntPtr object. IntPtr memIntPtr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(message.Length); // Get a byte pointer from the IntPtr object. byte* memBytePtr = (byte*) memIntPtr.ToPointer(); // Create an UnmanagedMemoryStream object using a pointer to unmanaged memory. UnmanagedMemoryStream writeStream = new UnmanagedMemoryStream(memBytePtr, message.Length, message.Length, FileAccess.Write); // Write the data. writeStream.Write(message, 0, message.Length); // Close the stream. writeStream.Close(); // Create another UnmanagedMemoryStream object using a pointer to unmanaged memory. UnmanagedMemoryStream readStream = new UnmanagedMemoryStream(memBytePtr, message.Length, message.Length, FileAccess.Read); // Create a byte array to hold data from unmanaged memory. byte[] outMessage = new byte[message.Length]; // Read from unmanaged memory to the byte array. readStream.Read(outMessage, 0, message.Length); // Close the stream. readStream.Close(); // Display the data to the console. Console.WriteLine(UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetString(outMessage)); // Free the block of unmanaged memory. Marshal.FreeHGlobal(memIntPtr); Console.ReadLine(); } }
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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.
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