Return StreamReader to Beginning

You need to seek on the stream, like you did, then call DiscardBufferedData on the StreamReader. Documentation here:

Edit: Adding code example:

Stream s = new MemoryStream();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(s);
// later... after we read stuff
s.Position = 0;
sr.DiscardBufferedData();        // reader now reading from position 0

I use this method:

System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader("file.txt")
//end of reading
reader.DiscardBufferedData();
reader.BaseStream.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin);