When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether the current stream supports seeking.
Public MustOverride ReadOnly Property CanSeek As Boolean
Dim instance As Stream Dim value As Boolean value = instance.CanSeek
public abstract bool CanSeek { get; }
public: virtual property bool CanSeek { bool get () abstract; }
public abstract function get CanSeek () : boolean
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 seeking, calls to Length, SetLength, Position, and Seek throw a NotSupportedException.
If the stream is closed, this property returns false.
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