How to convert an Stream into a byte[] in C#?

Call next function like

byte[] m_Bytes = StreamHelper.ReadToEnd (mystream);

Function:

public static byte[] ReadToEnd(System.IO.Stream stream)
{
    long originalPosition = 0;

    if(stream.CanSeek)
    {
         originalPosition = stream.Position;
         stream.Position = 0;
    }

    try
    {
        byte[] readBuffer = new byte[4096];

        int totalBytesRead = 0;
        int bytesRead;

        while ((bytesRead = stream.Read(readBuffer, totalBytesRead, readBuffer.Length - totalBytesRead)) > 0)
        {
            totalBytesRead += bytesRead;

            if (totalBytesRead == readBuffer.Length)
            {
                int nextByte = stream.ReadByte();
                if (nextByte != -1)
                {
                    byte[] temp = new byte[readBuffer.Length * 2];
                    Buffer.BlockCopy(readBuffer, 0, temp, 0, readBuffer.Length);
                    Buffer.SetByte(temp, totalBytesRead, (byte)nextByte);
                    readBuffer = temp;
                    totalBytesRead++;
                }
            }
        }

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