C# in a Nutshell

Name

StreamReader

Synopsis

This class is an extension of a TextReader and provides implementations for all its methods. CurrentEncoding returns the current encoding the StreamReader is using. If you would like to discard the buffered data (so it isn’t written to a disk or other resource), call DiscardBufferedData().

This class is a quick way to open a file for reading. Simply call the constructor with a string containing the filename, and you can immediately begin reading from the file with methods such as Read(), ReadLine(), or ReadToEnd().

public class StreamReader : TextReader {
// Public Constructors
   public method StreamReader(Stream stream);  
   public method StreamReader(Stream stream, 
        bool detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks);  
   public method StreamReader(Stream stream, 
        System.Text.Encoding encoding);  
   public method StreamReader(Stream stream, 
        System.Text.Encoding encoding, 
        bool detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks);  
   public method StreamReader(Stream stream, 
        System.Text.Encoding encoding, 
        bool detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, 
        int bufferSize);  
   public method StreamReader(string path);  
   public method StreamReader(string path, 
        bool detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks);  
   public method StreamReader(string path, 
        System.Text.Encoding encoding);  
   public method StreamReader(string path, 
        System.Text.Encoding encoding, 
        bool detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks);  
   public method StreamReader(string path, 
        System.Text.Encoding encoding, 
        bool detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, 
        int bufferSize);  
// Public Static Fields ...