When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether the current stream supports reading.
(in mscorlib.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public MustOverride ReadOnly Property CanRead As Boolean
Dim instance As Stream
Dim value As Boolean
value = instance.CanRead
public abstract bool CanRead { get; }
public:
virtual property bool CanRead {
bool get () abstract;
}
public abstract function get CanRead () : boolean
Property Value
Type:
System..::.Boolean
true if the stream supports reading; otherwise, false.
For an example of creating a file and writing text to a file, see How to: Write Text to a File. For an example of reading text from a file, see How to: Read Text from a File. For an example of reading from and writing to a binary file, see How to: Read and Write to a Newly Created Data File.
If a class derived from Stream does not support reading, calls to the Read, ReadByte, and BeginRead methods throw a NotSupportedException.
If the stream is closed, this property returns false.
The following is an example of using the CanRead property.
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Class TestRW
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim fs As New FileStream("MyFile.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read)
If fs.CanRead And fs.CanWrite Then
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from.")
Else
If fs.CanRead Then
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt is not writable.")
End If
End If
End Sub
End Class
using System;
using System.IO;
class TestRW
{
public static void Main(String[] args)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream("MyFile.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read);
if (fs.CanRead && fs.CanWrite)
{
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from.");
}
else if (fs.CanRead)
{
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt is not writable.");
}
}
}
using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
int main( void )
{
FileStream^ fs = gcnew FileStream( "MyFile.txt",FileMode::OpenOrCreate,FileAccess::Read );
if ( fs->CanRead && fs->CanWrite )
{
Console::WriteLine( "MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from." );
}
else
{
Console::WriteLine( "MyFile.txt is not writable" );
}
return 0;
}
import System;
import System.IO;
class TestRW
{
public static function Main() : void
{
var fs : FileStream = new FileStream("MyFile.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read);
if (fs.CanRead && fs.CanWrite)
{
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt can be both written to and read from.");
}
else if (fs.CanRead)
{
Console.WriteLine("MyFile.txt is not writable.");
}
}
}
TestRW.Main();
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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
.NET Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
.NET Compact Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0
XNA Framework
Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0
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