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When "ReadBits" or "ReadByte" are called the BitStream position doesn't advance. No call to "AdvanceBit" or similar functionality is invoked.

The user is unable to advance the BitPosition manually as BitPosition does not have a setter.

This doesn't seem to do what I was hoping. For example... I wanted to be able to read the next 3 bits into a .NET integer resulting in a value 0 to 7. Then read the next 9 bits into a .NET integer with a value of 0 to 511.

Can it do this?

Dim i as Integer = Bitstream.ReadBits(3) 'read 3 bits into integer

Haven't tried yet, am currently comparing some various implementations, but does this library support reading from a stream without a known length, such as a network stream? I did a quick glance, and saw usage of Stream.CopyTo in the constructor, where it appeared to essentially just read and copy the entire stream and used that data, making this appear to work more as a buffer, not a stream.

This looks like a very good solution for BitStream situations.

Any chance you can make the corresponding nuget package compatible with UWP apps?

Oliver

my bad 👍