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TextWriter.Null Field

Visual Studio 2008

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

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

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public static readonly TextWriter Null

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.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Xbox 360, Zune

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0
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