C# – PDFsharp save to MemoryStream

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I want to save a PdfSharp.Pdf.PdfDocument by its Save method to a Stream, but it doesn't attach the PDF header settings to it. So when I read back the Stream and return it to the user, he see that the PDF file is invalid. Is there a solution to attach the PDF header settings when PDFsharp saves to memory?

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If you think there is an issue with PdfDocument.Save, then please report this on the PDFsharp forum (but please be more specific with your error description). Your "solution" looks like a hack to me. "pdfRenderer.Save" calls "PdfDocument.Save" internally. Whatever the problem is - your "solution" still calls the same Save routine.

Edit: To get a byte[] containing a PDF file, you only have to call:

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
document.Save(stream, false);
byte[] bytes = stream.ToArray();

Early versions of PDFsharp do not reset the stream position.

So you have to call

ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

to reset the stream position before reading from the stream; this is no longer required for current versions.

Using ToArray can often be used instead of reading from the stream.

Edit 2: instead of stream.ToArray() it may be more efficient to use stream.GetBuffer(), but this buffer is usually larger than the PDF file and you only have to use stream.Length bytes from that buffer. Very useful for method that take a byte[] along with a length parameter.

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As highlighted by Tilendor in Jon Skeet's answer, streams have a CopyTo method since .NET 4.

var fileStream = File.Create("C:\\Path\\To\\File");
myOtherObject.InputStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
myOtherObject.InputStream.CopyTo(fileStream);
fileStream.Close();

Or with the using syntax:

using (var fileStream = File.Create("C:\\Path\\To\\File"))
{
    myOtherObject.InputStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    myOtherObject.InputStream.CopyTo(fileStream);
}

C# – How to save application settings in a Windows Forms application

If you work with Visual Studio then it is pretty easy to get persistable settings. Right click on the project in Solution Explorer and choose Properties. Select the Settings tab and click on the hyperlink if settings doesn't exist.

Use the Settings tab to create application settings. Visual Studio creates the files Settings.settings and Settings.Designer.settings that contain the singleton class Settings inherited from ApplicationSettingsBase. You can access this class from your code to read/write application settings:

Properties.Settings.Default["SomeProperty"] = "Some Value";
Properties.Settings.Default.Save(); // Saves settings in application configuration file

This technique is applicable both for console, Windows Forms, and other project types.

Note that you need to set the scope property of your settings. If you select Application scope then Settings.Default.<your property> will be read-only.

Reference: How To: Write User Settings at Run Time with C# - Microsoft Docs

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