C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition

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	This determines whether you can read from and write to the stream
Length, Position	This determines the total number of bytes and the current position within the stream
Dispose()	This 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(), ReadAsync()	This reads a specified number of bytes from the stream into ...