Convert HttpPostedFileBase to byte[]
Convert HttpPostedFileBase to byte[]
MemoryStream target = new MemoryStream();
model.File.InputStream.CopyTo(target);
byte[] data = target.ToArray();
It’s easy enough to write the equivalent of CopyTo
in .NET 3.5 if you want. The important part is that you read from HttpPostedFileBase.InputStream
.
For efficient purposes you could check whether the stream returned is already a MemoryStream
:
byte[] data;
using (Stream inputStream = model.File.InputStream)
{
MemoryStream memoryStream = inputStream as MemoryStream;
if (memoryStream == null)
{
memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
inputStream.CopyTo(memoryStream);
}
data = memoryStream.ToArray();
}