Using Memory Streams
Memory streams are special objects that act like file streams but that work in memory, providing the ability to manipulate binary data. The following code creates a MemoryStream with 2 Kbytes capacity and puts in a string:
To retrieve data you use a BinaryReader pointing to the MemoryStream as you saw in the paragraph for binary files. So, in this example, you can simply invoke ReadString as follows:
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