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15.18.2.The Stream Classes

Some of the Methods Defined by Stream

Method	Description
void Close()	Closes the stream.
void Flush()	Flush the stream.
int ReadByte()	Returns an integer representation of a byte of input. Returns -1 if no byte is available.
int Read(byte[ ] buf,int offset, int numBytes)	Attempts to read up to numBytes bytes into buf starting at buf[offset], returning the number of bytes successfully read.
long Seek(long offset,SeekOrigin origin)	Sets the current position in the stream to the specified offset from the specified origin.
void WriteByte(byte b)	Writes a single byte to an output stream.
void Write(byte[ ] buf,int offset, int numBytes)	Writes a subrange of numBytes bytes from the array buf, beginning at buf[offset].

The Properties Defined by Stream

Method	Description
bool CanRead	can be read or not. (read-only)
bool CanSeek	supports position requests or not. (read-only)
bool CanWrite	can be written or not. (read-only)
long Length	the length of the stream. (read-only)
long Position	the current position of the stream. (read/write)

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

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