I’m not usually one to answer my own questions, but I’ve accomplished exactly what I wanted with some simple code: class BinaryReader2 : BinaryReader { public BinaryReader2(System.IO.Stream stream) : base(stream) { } public override int ReadInt32() { var data = base.ReadBytes(4); Array.Reverse(data); return BitConverter.ToInt32(data, 0); } public Int16 ReadInt16() { var data = base.ReadBytes(2); Array.Reverse(data); … Read more
Both StreamReader and BinaryReader can be used to get data from binary file Well, StreamReader can be used to get text data from a binary representation of text. BinaryReader can be used to get arbitrary binary data. If some of that binary data happens to be a representation of text, that’s fine – but it … Read more
There is a more accurate way to check for EOF when working with binary data. It avoids all of the encoding issues that come with the PeekChar approach and does exactly what is needed: to check whether the position of the reader is at the end of the file or not. while (inFile.BaseStream.Position != inFile.BaseStream.Length) … Read more
Original Answer (Read Update Below!) Simply do: byte[] allData = read1.ReadBytes(int.MaxValue); The documentation says that it will read all bytes until the end of the stream is reached. Update Although this seems elegant, and the documentation seems to indicate that this would work, the actual implementation (checked in .NET 2, 3.5, and 4) allocates a … Read more
Depending on the encoding you wish to use: var str = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(result);