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The Byte Stream Classes and The Character Stream Wrapper Classes

The Byte Stream Classes



Stream Class
Description


BufferedStream
Wraps a byte stream and adds buffering.


FileStream
A byte stream designed for file I/O.


MemoryStream
A 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.

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

Related in same category :
• C#'s I/O Is Built Upon Streams
• The Stream Classes
• Stream seeking
• Using streamreader to decode streams
• Using streamreader to read entire lines at a time
• Using streamreader to read the entire stream at once
• Reading from a stream, casting to chars
• Reading from a stream buffer at a time