Help converting types

[pink2070]

I am trying to give the value of filestream:
stream

To an array of bytes:
buffer

Can someone give me the correct syntax for assigning a filestream to a 1-dimensional array of byte?

I am receiving the following errors:
Value of type 'long' cannot be converted to a '1-dimensional array of byte'

'Create a stream to load the file
Dim stream As FileStream = New FileStream("\\DirectoryName1\DirectoryName2\DirectoryName3\fileName.pdf", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
'Create a buffer to hold the information
'Dim buffer() As Byte = CType(stream.Length, Byte())

Please help!

Thanks Pink

 

[chrissie1]

shouldn't that be

Dim buffer() As Byte = CType(stream, Byte())

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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