Using MemoryStream .NET

//writing to Memory stream byte[] plainTextBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainText); MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(); memoryStream.Write(plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length); memoryStream.FlushFinalBlock(); //getting the bytes from memory stream and converting them to a string byte[] memoryTextBytes = memoryStream.ToArray(); string originalText = Convert.ToBase64String(memoryTextBytes ); //reading from memoryStream byte[] memoryTextBytes2 = new byte[memoryStream.Length]; memoryStream.Seek(0,SeekOrigin.Begin); int readByteCount = memoryStream.Read(memoryTextBytes2 , 0, memoryTextBytes2 .Length); memoryStream.Close(); string plainText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(plainTextBytes, 0, readByteCount); -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- using MemoryStream to BinarySerialize into memory -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MemoryStream t = new MemoryStream(); BinaryFormatter myFormatter = new BinaryFormatter(); myFormatter.Serialize(t, someObject); //serialize some object byte[] plainTextBytes = new byte[t.Length]; t.Seek(0,SeekOrigin.Begin); int readByteCount = t.Read(plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length); t.Close(); //plainText contains the serialized string string plainText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(plainTextBytes, 0, readByteCount); ///deserialization byte[] stringAsBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainText); t = new MemoryStream(stringAsBytes); object newO = myFormatter.Deserialize(t) ;