reading a file

[bob323]

hummm I get a strange result when I try and read a file and put its contents in a textbox... here is the code:

<code>
string strPath= "C:\\test.log";

FileStream logFile = new FileStream(strPath, FileMode.Open);
int len =(int)logFile.Length;
byte [] logdata = new byte [len];

logFile.Read(logdata,0,len);

txtLogFile.Text = logdata.ToString();
</code>

for some reason the output (regardless of the file contents) is "System.Byte[]"

Any ideas? or know the right way to do this?

[DevGrp]

What kind of data is in test.log?

Anyway try this.

string strPath= "test.log";

FileStream logFile = new FileStream(strPath, FileMode.Open);
int len =(int)logFile.Length;
byte [] logdata = new byte [len];

logFile.Read(logdata,0,len);

textBox1.Text = Convert.ToBase64String(logdata);