Summary
This chapter provided a brief introduction to input and output streams and how they are used to write to and read from files.
The important points discussed are reviewed in this section.
I/O stands for program input and program output.
Program input refers to data flowing into a program and is handled by input streams from which the program can read.
Program output refers to data flowing out of a program and is handled by output streams to which the program can write.
In C# and .NET, streams and files can be abstracted into objects of classes that reside in the System.IO namespace. This makes it easier to perform file I/O.
Any file consists of one long sequence of bits positioned one after the other. Depending on their interpretation, ...
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