read a binary file bit by bit --- c#

[tom thomas]

Dear sir,

i am very new to c# and i request you to... please look into the problem

The following is the code(please see the code below:) which i uses to open the binary file,currently it works fine ,but now the problem is that 2 bytes are read in simultaneously and is being converted into an integer,but i need to read the data from the file in bits and finally convert 8 bits into binary numbers and then to decimal numbers? could you be able to give me some advice to read the file bit by bit ? is it ok if i read all the bytes into a an array and then try to convert it into a bit array?


with regards,
tom.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;
 
 
class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        R();
    }
 
    static void R()
    {
        // 1.
        using (BinaryReader b = new BinaryReader(File.Open("file.bin", FileMode.Open)))
        {
            // 2.
            // Position and length variables.
            int pos = 0;
            // 2A.
            // Use BaseStream.
            int length = (int)b.BaseStream.Length;
            while (pos < length)
            {
                // 3.
                // Read integer.
                int v = b.ReadInt32();
                Console.WriteLine(v);
 
                // 4.
                // Advance our position variable.
                pos += sizeof(int);
 
                // 5.
                // Seek to our required position.(int pos1 had to be found out )
                //int pos1 = 0;
                //b.BaseStream.Seek(pos1, SeekOrigin.Begin);
 
                // 6.
                // Read the next 2000 bytes or required number of bytes int the byte array(int required had to be found out ).
                //int required = 20000;
                //byte[] by = b.ReadBytes(required);
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                //.8 convert to bit array
                //BitArray myBits = new BitArray(by);
                byte[] value = { 0x11 };
                BitArray myBits = new BitArray(value);
 
 
            }
 
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}
 

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[r035198x]

You are mixing things up a bit here. What is the nature of your binary file?
Using b.ReadInt32(); will attempt to read an int from the file not a bit. Obviously you need to be sure that there is an int in there at the current reading position for it to work. Better read this article.