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Object-oriented Programming in C#
Input and Output Classes
The Stream Concept

A stream is a flow of data from a program to a backing store, or from a backing store to a program

The program can either write to a stream, or read from a stream.

Reading from and writing to a stream

  • Streams and stream processing

    • Reading from or writing to files in secondary memory (disk)

    • Reading from or writing to primary memory (RAM)

    • Connection to the Internet

    • Socket connection between two programs