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stream

A pipe of bytes you read from or write to a piece at a time.

System.IO.Stream is the abstract base for sequential byte sources and sinks (files, memory, network), with Read, Write, Seek and Flush.

Examples

  • FileStream photo = File.OpenRead("photo.jpg"); gives a stream you read a buffer at a time, however big the file is.

See also

using statement encoding
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