Data Type Question

dparsons · March 23rd, 2006, 06:07 PM

Hello all,
I have a general question about the byte datatype, though this will get a little complex at the end. Now I know that when I declare a variable as a byte that it consumes 1byte of memory, so does that mean if I declare a byte array of say 100 that it is using 100 bytes?

Next question is in regards to streams, I am reading data into a byte array (text and binary data) and this is fine until I reach a stream that has more then 1MB of data in it. Streams that are <= 999KB do not cause me a problem, anything larger then that causes me application to fail. (The aspnet_wp.exe terminates in the task manager, however, this isnt due to an out of memory error as the process maintains its current memory usage and my server still has ~800mb avail) So the question is, do byte arrays have a max limit that, if you go past a certain point, it causes an overflow?

My work around to this was to create a filestream and stream the byte data to a text file as it was coming down, and this works like a charm, except when i got to retrieve the data. I write the buffer directly to the filestream, it is inside of that stream that the byte gets converted to its character representation automatically. Now when this stream is done I close it for writing and open it for reading and read the stream into a string, now i want to convert that string back to its byte representation so i use System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(string) somewhere between the writing and the converting my data gets corrupted and I dont know why. The reason i know this is because I wrote out both the original byte array length and the string length and then also the byte array length that i populate from the string. My second byte array is always substanitally smaller then my original byte array, can anyone please explain this to me???

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