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The Byte Stream Classes

Stream ClassDescription
BufferedStreamWraps a byte stream and adds buffering.
FileStreamA byte stream designed for file I/O.
MemoryStreamA byte stream that uses memory for storage.


The Character Stream Wrapper Classes.

To create a character stream, wrap a byte stream inside one of C#'s character stream wrappers.

  1. The abstract classes TextReader and TextWriter are at the top of the character stream hierarchy.
  2. TextReader handles input.
  3. TextWriter handles output.








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