Can C# directly read/write bytes from/to file to short array?

You can use the BinaryFormatter class to serialize collections. This would mean your array would be an ArrayList of shorts or floats. (I think you need to add the [serializable] attribute to the beginning of your class though(. Below is an example: // Reading public static void Read(MyClass c) { // check to see if there is a file to read if (File.Exists(sStorage)) { // create a binary formatter to read the class members BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter(); FileStream fs = new FileStream(sStorage, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); // read the array into the ArrayList c.MyArray = (ArrayList)bf.Deserialize(fs); fs.Close(); } } // Writing BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter(); FileStream fs = new FileStream(sStorage, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write); // write out the collection in the ArrayList bf.Serialize(fs, MyArray); fs.Close(); -Mike G.

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You can use the BinaryFormatter class to serialize collections. This would mean your array would be an ArrayList of shorts or floats. (I think you need to add the [serializable] attribute to the beginning of your class though(. Below is an example: // Reading public static void Read(MyClass c) { // check to see if there is a file to read if (File.Exists(sStorage)) { // create a binary formatter to read the class members BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter(); FileStream fs = new FileStream(sStorage, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); // read the array into the ArrayList c.MyArray = (ArrayList)bf.Deserialize(fs); fs.Close(); } } // Writing BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter(); FileStream fs = new FileStream(sStorage, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write); // write out the collection in the ArrayList bf.Serialize(fs, MyArray); fs.Close(); -Mike G.
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