Reading from a stream, casting to chars : Stream « File Directory Stream « C# / CSharp Tutorial

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;

public class MainClass
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        using (Stream s = new FileStream("c:\\test.txt", FileMode.Open))
        {
            int read;
            while ((read = s.ReadByte()) != -1)
            {
                Console.Write("{0} ", (char)read);
            }
        }
    }
}

15.18.Stream
	15.18.1.	C#'s I/O Is Built Upon Streams
	15.18.2.	The Stream Classes
	15.18.3.	The Byte Stream Classes and The Character Stream Wrapper Classes
	15.18.4.	Stream seeking: SeekOrigin.Current, SeekOrigin.Begin, SeekOrigin.End
	15.18.5.	Using streamreader to decode streams
	15.18.6.	Using streamreader to read entire lines at a time
	15.18.7.	Using streamreader to read the entire stream at once
	15.18.8.	Reading from a stream, casting to chars
	15.18.9.	Reading from a stream buffer at a time
	15.18.10.	Implementing Binary Read Write To File