Reading and Writing Binary Files
You can read and write data to binary files using the BinaryReader
and BinaryWriter
classes. Both require a FileStream
instance and allow reading and writing arrays of bytes. The following is an example of creating a binary stream:
The Write
method allows writing information as binary but it also accepts base .NET types such as integers and strings, all written as binary. It provides several overloads so that you can also specify the offset and the number of bytes to be written. To read a binary file you instantiate the BinaryReader
class. The following example retrieves information from a file utilizing a Using..End ...
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