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SeekOrigin Enumeration

.NET Framework 4.5

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Provides the fields that represent reference points in streams for seeking.

Namespace: System.IO
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

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[SerializableAttribute]
[ComVisibleAttribute(true)]
public enum SeekOrigin

Members

	Member name	Description
	Begin	Specifies the beginning of a stream.
	Current	Specifies the current position within a stream.
	End	Specifies the end of a stream.

Remarks

SeekOrigin is used by the Seek methods of Stream, BufferedStream, FileStream, MemoryStream, BinaryWriter, and other classes. The Seek methods take an offset parameter that is relative to the position specified by SeekOrigin.

For an example that uses each SeekOrigin value, see the Seek method.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Portable Class Library

Supported in: Portable Class Library

Platforms

Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server 8 Beta, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

System.IO Namespace

Other Resources

File and Stream I/O

How to: Read Text from a File

How to: Write Text to a File

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