Advantage / Disadvantage MemoryStream.Position or MemoryStream.Seek [duplicate]

Question

What is the advantage or disadvantage (or the difference) to use

memoryStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

instead of

memoryStream.Position = 0

Answer 1

The only advantage of Position is a shorter, more direct notation.

The advantage of Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin) is that you also have SeekOrigin.Current and SeekOrigin.End.

But they are functionally the same, pick whatever you think is most readable.

Answer 2

They're both the same internally and set the position of the stream. See MSDN Stream.Seek. Position is absolute while Seek provides a relative / offset position.

Whatever you prefer for readability.

Stream.Position += 50;
Stream.Seek(50, SeekOrigin.Current);