Description
Streams involve three fundamental operations:
You can read from streams. Reading is the transfer of data from a stream into a data structure, such as an array of bytes.
You can write to streams. Writing is the transfer of data from a data structure into a stream.
Streams can support seeking. Seeking is the querying and modifying of the current position within a stream. Seek capability depends on the kind of backing store a stream has. For example, network streams have no unified concept of a current position, and therefore typically do not support seeking.
All classes that represent streams inherit from the System.IO.Stream class. The System.IO.Stream class and its subclasses provide a generic view of data sources and repositories, ...
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