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StreamWriter::Encoding Property
Visual Studio 2010
Gets the Encoding in which the output is written.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Text::EncodingThe Encoding specified in the constructor for the current instance, or UTF8Encoding if an encoding was not specified.
This property is necessary for some XML scenarios where a header must be written containing the encoding used by the StreamWriter. This allows the XML code to consume an arbitrary StreamWriter and generate the correct XML header.
For a list of common I/O tasks, see Common I/O Tasks.
The following example retrieves the encoding of the specified StreamWriter instance.
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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