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TextWriter::Null Field

 

Provides a TextWriter with no backing store that can be written to, but not read from.

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

public:
static initonly TextWriter^ Null

Field Value

Type: System.IO::TextWriter^

Use Null to redirect output to a stream that will not consume any operating system resources.

When the TextWriter::Write methods are invoked on Null, the call simply returns, and no data is actually written to any backing store.

For a list of common I/O tasks, see Common I-O Tasks.

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
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