When overridden in a derived class, gets the length in bytes of the stream.
(in mscorlib.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public MustOverride ReadOnly Property Length As Long
Dim instance As Stream
Dim value As Long
value = instance.Length
public abstract long Length { get; }
public:
virtual property long long Length {
long long get () abstract;
}
public abstract function get Length () : long
Property Value
Type:
System..::.Int64A long value representing the length of the stream in bytes.
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.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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