SetLength

Sets the current length of the stream.

 Public Sub SetLength(
	  ByVal Value As Currency )

Parameters

Value

[ByVal] Currency. The size of the stream in bytes.

Remarks

The shortening the length of the stream will truncate the excess data. If increasing the length, then the new exposed data will be set to zero.

If a user-supplied byte array is being used, this function has limited capabilites. The size of the stream can be changed to withing the origin size of the user-supplied byte array. If a length greater than the original array size is set, then an exception is thrown.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
NotSupportedException	The current stream is not resizable and Value is larger than the current capacity. -or- The current stream does not support writing.
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	value is negative or is greater than the maximum length of the MemoryStream, where the maximum length is( MaxValue - origin), and origin is the index into the underlying buffer at which the stream starts.

See Also

Project CorLib Overview

Class MemoryStream Overview