StreamWriter::Encoding Property
Gets the Encoding in which the output is written.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Text::Encoding^The 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.
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