- C# Basic Tutorial
- C# - Home
- C# - Overview
- C# - Environment
- C# - Program Structure
- C# - Basic Syntax
- C# - Data Types
- C# - Type Conversion
- C# - Variables
- C# - Constants
- C# - Operators
- C# - Decision Making
- C# - Loops
- C# - Encapsulation
- C# - Methods
- C# - Nullables
- C# - Arrays
- C# - Strings
- C# - Structure
- C# - Enums
- C# - Classes
- C# - Inheritance
- C# - Polymorphism
- C# - Operator Overloading
- C# - Interfaces
- C# - Namespaces
- C# - Preprocessor Directives
- C# - Regular Expressions
- C# - Exception Handling
- C# - File I/O
- C# Advanced Tutorial
- C# - Attributes
- C# - Reflection
- C# - Properties
- C# - Indexers
- C# - Delegates
- C# - Events
- C# - Collections
- C# - Generics
- C# - Anonymous Methods
- C# - Unsafe Codes
- C# - Multithreading
- C# Useful Resources
- C# - Questions and Answers
- C# - Quick Guide
- C# - Useful Resources
- C# - Discussion
Streams and Byte Streams in C#
A file is a collection of data stored in a disk with a specific name and a directory path. When a file is opened for reading or writing, it becomes a stream.
The type of streams includes −
Byte Streams − It includes Stream, FileStream, MemoryStream and BufferedStream.
Character Streams − It includes Textreader-TextWriter, StreamReader, StraemWriter and other streams.
Byte streams have classes that consider data in the stream as byte.
Stream class is the base for other byte stream classes. The following are the properties −
CanRead − Whether stream supports reading
CanWrite − Whether stream supports writing
Length − Length of the stream
The System.IO namespace has various classes that are used for performing numerous operations with files, such as creating and deleting files, reading from or writing to a file, closing a file etc.
The streams we discussed are described in the below table −
| Sr.No | I/O Class & Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | BinaryReader Reads primitive data from a binary stream. |
| 2 | BinaryWriter Writes primitive data in binary format. |
| 3 | BufferedStream A temporary storage for a stream of bytes. |
| 4 | Directory Helps in manipulating a directory structure. |
| 5 | DirectoryInfo Used for performing operations on directories. |
| 6 | DriveInfo Provides information for the drives. |
| 7 | File Helps in manipulating files. |
| 8 | FileInfo Used for performing operations on files. |
| 9 | FileStream Used to read from and write to any location in a file. |
| 10 | MemoryStream Used for random access to streamed data stored in memory. |
| 11 | Path Performs operations on path information. |
| 12 | StreamReader Used for reading characters from a byte stream. |
| 13 | StreamWriter Is used for writing characters to a stream. |
| 14 | StringReader Is used for reading from a string buffer. |
| 15 | StringWriter Is used for writing into a string buffer. |
- Related Articles
- Byte Streams in Java
- What is the necessity of byte streams and character streams in Java?
- Streams in Java
- Streams In C#
- Character streams in Java
- Java 8 Streams and its operations
- Difference between Streams and Collections in Java 8
- Streams on Arrays in Java 8
- An array of streams in C#
- What are cin, cout and cerr streams in C++?
- What are Async Streams in C# 8.0?
- Java streams counting() method with examples
- Redirect output of process to a file and streams?
- How to iterate List Using Streams in Java?
- What is the difference between cerr and clog streams in c++?
