When overridden in a derived class, gets or sets the position within the current stream.
(in mscorlib.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public MustOverride Property Position As Long
Dim instance As Stream
Dim value As Long
value = instance.Position
instance.Position = value
public abstract long Position { get; set; }
public:
virtual property long long Position {
long long get () abstract;
void set (long long value) abstract;
}
public abstract function get Position () : long
public abstract function set Position (value : long)
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.
The stream must support seeking to get or set the position. Use the CanSeek property to determine whether the stream supports seeking.
Seeking to any location beyond the length of the stream is supported.
The Position property does not keep track of the number of bytes from the stream that have been consumed, skipped, or both.
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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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