When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether the current stream supports writing.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Syntax
Remarks
If a class derived from Stream does not support writing, a call to Write, BeginWrite, or WriteByte throws a NotSupportedException.
If the stream is closed, this property returns false.
Examples
The following is an example of using the CanWrite property.
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Class TestRW
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim fs As New FileStream("MyFile.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, _
FileAccess.Write)
If fs.CanRead And fs.CanWrite Then
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from.")
Else
If fs.CanWrite Then
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt is writable.")
End If
End If
End Sub
End Class
'This code outputs "MyFile.txt is writable."
'To get the output message "MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from.",
'change the FileAccess parameter to ReadWrite in the FileStream constructor.
using System;
using System.IO;
class TestRW
{
public static void Main(String[] args)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream("MyFile.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate,
FileAccess.Write);
if (fs.CanRead && fs.CanWrite) {
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from.");
}
else if (fs.CanWrite) {
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt is writable.");
}
}
}
//This code outputs "MyFile.txt is writable."
//To get the output message "MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from.",
//change the FileAccess parameter to ReadWrite in the FileStream constructor.
using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
int main()
{
FileStream^ fs = gcnew FileStream( "MyFile.txt",FileMode::OpenOrCreate,FileAccess::Write );
if ( fs->CanRead && fs->CanWrite )
{
Console::WriteLine( "MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from." );
}
else
if ( fs->CanWrite )
{
Console::WriteLine( "MyFile.txt is writable." );
}
}
//This code outputs "MyFile.txt is writable."
//To get the output message "MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from.",
//change the FileAccess parameter to ReadWrite in the FileStream constructor.
Platforms
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.