Reset or Clear .NET MemoryStream

.net, memorystream

Solution

The memorystream does not have a reset/clear method because it would be redundant. By setting it to zero length you clear it.

Of course you could always do:

memoryStream = new MemoryStream(memoryStream.Capacity());

This would yield you a memorystream of the same size that is initialized.

If you really want to manually clear the stream I suspect you would have to resort to looping through the elements.

Problem

The .NET MemoryStream does not appear to have a .Reset or .Clear method. I was thinking of using the following code to accomplish this: ``` ms.Seek(0, IO.SeekOrigin.Begin) ms.SetLength(0) ``` What is the proper way to clear or reset an existing .NET MemoryStream?

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