Can a Byte[] Array be written to a file in C#?

Based on the first sentence of the question: "I'm trying to write out a Byte[] array representing a complete file to a file."

The path of least resistance would be:

File.WriteAllBytes(string path, byte[] bytes)

Documented here:

System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes - MSDN

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You can use a BinaryWriter object.

protected bool SaveData(string FileName, byte[] Data)
{
    BinaryWriter Writer = null;
    string Name = @"C:\temp\yourfile.name";

    try
    {
        // Create a new stream to write to the file
        Writer = new BinaryWriter(File.OpenWrite(Name));

        // Writer raw data                
        Writer.Write(Data);
        Writer.Flush();
        Writer.Close();
    }
    catch 
    {
        //...
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

Edit: Oops, forgot the finally part... lets say it is left as an exercise for the reader ;-)

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There is a static method System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes

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You can do this using System.IO.BinaryWriter which takes a Stream so:

var bw = new BinaryWriter(File.Open("path",FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
bw.Write(byteArray);

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You can use the FileStream.Write(byte[] array, int offset, int count) method to write it out.

If your array name is "myArray" the code would be.

myStream.Write(myArray, 0, myArray.count);

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Yep, why not?

fs.Write(myByteArray, 0, myByteArray.Length);

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Try BinaryReader:

/// <summary>
/// Convert the Binary AnyFile to Byte[] format
/// </summary>
/// <param name="image"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static byte[] ConvertANYFileToBytes(HttpPostedFileBase image)
{
    byte[] imageBytes = null;
    BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(image.InputStream);
    imageBytes = reader.ReadBytes((int)image.ContentLength);
    return imageBytes;
}

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Asp.net (c#)

// This is server path, where application is hosted.

var path = @"C:\Websites\mywebsite\profiles\";

//file in bytes array

var imageBytes = client.DownloadData(imagePath);

//file extension

var fileExtension = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(imagePath);

//writing(saving) the files on given path. Appending employee id as file name and file extension.

File.WriteAllBytes(path + dataTable.Rows[0]["empid"].ToString() + fileExtension, imageBytes);

Next Step:

You may need to Provide access to profile folder for iis user.

right click on profile folder go to security tab click "Edit", give full control to "IIS_IUSRS" (IF THIS USER NOT EXISTS THEN CLICK ON ADD AND TYPE "IIS_IUSRS" AND CLICK ON "Check Names".

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