C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

Reading and writing with streams

A stream is a sequence of bytes.

There is an abstract class named Stream that represents a stream. There are many classes that inherit from this base class, so they all work the same way. In the following table are some of the common members of the Stream class:

Member	Description
CanRead, CanWrite	Determines whether you can read to and write from the stream
Length, Position	Determines the total number of bytes and the current position within the stream
Close()	Closes the stream and releases its resources
Flush()	If the stream has a buffer, then it is cleared and written to the underlying stream
Read()	Reads a specified number of bytes from the stream into a byte array and advances the position ...