How to read and write a file using Memory Mapped File C#?

Question

I have an image in D Drive like "D:\\Image\\1.tiff". I want to read this file and write it in an another location, for example in the path "D:\\Project\\". How to do this using Memory Mapped File?

Answer 1

The CreateFromFile methods create a memory-mapped file from an existing file on disk. The following example creates a memory-mapped view of a part of an extremely large file and manipulates a portion of it.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        long offset = 0x10000000; // 256 megabytes 
        long length = 0x20000000; // 512 megabytes 

        // Create the memory-mapped file. 
        using (var mmf = MemoryMappedFile.CreateFromFile(@"c:\ExtremelyLargeImage.data", FileMode.Open,"ImgA"))
        {
            // Create a random access view, from the 256th megabyte (the offset) 
            // to the 768th megabyte (the offset plus length). 
            using (var accessor = mmf.CreateViewAccessor(offset, length))
            {
                int colorSize = Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(MyColor));
                MyColor color;

                // Make changes to the view. 
                for (long i = 0; i < length; i += colorSize)
                {
                    accessor.Read(i, out color);
                    color.Brighten(10);
                    accessor.Write(i, ref color);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

public struct MyColor
{
    public short Red;
    public short Green;
    public short Blue;
    public short Alpha;

    // Make the view brighter. 
    public void Brighten(short value)
    {
        Red = (short)Math.Min(short.MaxValue, (int)Red + value);
        Green = (short)Math.Min(short.MaxValue, (int)Green + value);
        Blue = (short)Math.Min(short.MaxValue, (int)Blue + value);
        Alpha = (short)Math.Min(short.MaxValue, (int)Alpha + value);
    }
}

The following example opens the same memory-mapped file for another process.

using System;
using System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;


class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        // Assumes another process has created the memory-mapped file. 
        using (var mmf = MemoryMappedFile.OpenExisting("ImgA"))
        {
            using (var accessor = mmf.CreateViewAccessor(4000000, 2000000))
            {
                int colorSize = Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(MyColor));
                MyColor color;

                // Make changes to the view. 
                for (long i = 0; i < 1500000; i += colorSize)
                {
                    accessor.Read(i, out color);
                    color.Brighten(20);
                    accessor.Write(i, ref color);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

public struct MyColor
{
    public short Red;
    public short Green;
    public short Blue;
    public short Alpha;

    // Make the view brigher. 
    public void Brighten(short value)
    {
        Red = (short)Math.Min(short.MaxValue, (int)Red + value);
        Green = (short)Math.Min(short.MaxValue, (int)Green + value);
        Blue = (short)Math.Min(short.MaxValue, (int)Blue + value);
        Alpha = (short)Math.Min(short.MaxValue, (int)Alpha + value);
    }
}

You can also read more at : http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/138290/Programming-Memory-Mapped-Files-with-the-NET-Frame

Answer 2

I can now achieve reading and writing a file using Memory Mapped File using the below coding:

FileStream stream = File.OpenRead(@"D:\FFv1\dpx1\1.dpx");
byte[] fileBytes = new byte[stream.Length];
string Output = @"D:\Vanthiya Thevan\FFv1\dpx1\2.dpx";
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(Output, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite, FileShare.ReadWrite))
using (MemoryMappedFile memoryMapped = MemoryMappedFile.CreateFromFile(fileStream, "MapName", fileBytes.Length,
MemoryMappedFileAccess.ReadWrite, new MemoryMappedFileSecurity(), HandleInheritability.Inheritable, true))
{
    var viewStream = memoryMapped.CreateViewStream();
    viewStream.Write(fileBytes, 0, fileBytes.Length); 
}