stream a file to bytes in csharp

To stream a file to bytes in C#, you can use the FileStream class to read the file and store the bytes in a byte array. Here's an example code snippet that shows how to accomplish this:

main.cs
string filePath = @"C:\path\to\file.ext";
byte[] fileBytes;

using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
    // Create a buffer to hold the bytes
    byte[] buffer = new byte[stream.Length];

    // Read the bytes from the file into the buffer
    int bytesRead = stream.Read(buffer, 0, (int)stream.Length);

    // Store the bytes in a byte array
    fileBytes = new byte[bytesRead];
    Array.Copy(buffer, fileBytes, bytesRead);
}
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In the example above, we first create a FileStream object to read the file at the specified filePath. We then create a buffer to hold the bytes, and read the bytes from the file into the buffer using the Read method. Finally, we create a byte array to store the bytes that we've read from the file, and copy the bytes from the buffer to the byte array using the Array.Copy method.