The abstract class Stream in C#

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The abstract class Stream in C#

The abstract class Stream is the most general stream class in C#

The Stream class
- Provides a generic view on data sources and data destinations
- Isolates the programmer from operating system details
- Offers reading and writing of raw, binary data
  - Chunked and sequenced as bytes
  - No char encoding is involved
- Synchronous reading and writing
  - Read and Write transfer byte arrays
  - A subclass must implement the operations Read and Write
- Asynchronous reading and writing - (not covered in this lecture)
  - BeginRead and EndRead
  - BeginWrite and EndWrite
  - Rely on Read and Write
- A stream can be queried for its capabilities
  - CanRead, CanWrite, CanSeek