Stream.Seek Method
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
'Declaration Public MustOverride Function Seek ( _ offset As Long, _ origin As SeekOrigin _ ) As Long 'Usage Dim instance As Stream Dim offset As Long Dim origin As SeekOrigin Dim returnValue As Long returnValue = instance.Seek(offset, origin)
public abstract long Seek ( long offset, SeekOrigin origin )
public abstract function Seek ( offset : long, origin : SeekOrigin ) : long
Parameters
- offset
A byte offset relative to the origin parameter.
- origin
A value of type SeekOrigin indicating the reference point used to obtain the new position.
Return Value
The new position within the current stream.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.
Use the CanSeek property to determine whether the current instance supports seeking.
If offset is negative, the new position is required to precede the position specified by origin by the number of bytes specified by offset. If offset is zero (0), the new position is required to be the position specified by origin. If offset is positive, the new position is required to follow the position specified by origin by the number of bytes specified by offset.
Classes derived from Stream that support seeking must override this method to provide the functionality described above.
Seeking to any location beyond the length of the stream is supported.
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