StreamWriter.Flush Method
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
This method overrides Flush.
Flushing the stream will not flush its underlying encoder unless you explicitly call Flush or Close. Setting AutoFlush to true means that data will be flushed from the buffer to the stream, but the encoder state will not be flushed. This allows the encoder to keep its state (partial characters) so that it can encode the next block of characters correctly. This scenario affects UTF8 and UTF7 where certain characters can only be encoded after the encoder receives the adjacent character or characters.
The following table lists examples of other typical or related I/O tasks.
| To do this... | See the example in this topic... |
|---|---|
| Create a text file. | |
| Write to a text file. | |
| Read from a text file. | |
| Append text to a file. | |
| Get the size of a file. | |
| Get the attributes of a file. | |
| Set the attributes of a file. | |
| Determine if a file exists. | |
| Read from a binary file. | |
| Write to a binary file. |
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The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see System Requirements.