Save a Stream to a File

If you've got a Stream in .NET - whether its fetched from a HttpWebRequest or read from another file - you can easily save this stream to another file using the following code.

// readStream is the stream you need to read
// writeStream is the stream you want to write to
private void ReadWriteStream(Stream readStream, Stream writeStream)
{
    int Length = 256;
    Byte [] buffer = new Byte[Length];
    int bytesRead = readStream.Read(buffer,0,Length);
    // write the required bytes
    while( bytesRead > 0 )
    {
        writeStream.Write(buffer,0,bytesRead);
        bytesRead = readStream.Read(buffer,0,Length);
    }
    readStream.Close();
    writeStream.Close();
}

To call this method, just do something like this:

string saveTo = "some path to save"
// create a write stream
FileStream writeStream = new FileStream(saveTo, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
// write to the stream
ReadWriteStream(readStream,writeStream);

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