.Net Beginners , C# Tips : How to Open a filestream for reading a stream using C# .Net Programming and VB.Net Programming

You can open a file in read mode and get FileStream Object for reading a stream.
After getting FileStream object you can read data using "Read" and "ReadByte" methods.
You can open any file i.e Text , Image , doc etc..
After reading the file you need to close the FileStream Object.

Here are example for this.
In this example we open two different "Text" and "Image" format files.

C# Example :

    // Get a filestream for reading a Text file
    System.IO.FileStream objFileStreamTxt = System.IO.File.OpenRead(MapPath("TextFile.txt"));
    objFileStreamTxt.Close();

    // Get a filestream for reading a Image file
    System.IO.FileStream objFileStreamImg = System.IO.File.OpenRead(MapPath("computer.jpg"));
    objFileStreamImg.Close();

VB.net Example :

        ' Get a filestream for reading a Text file
        Dim objFileStreamTxt As System.IO.FileStream = System.IO.File.OpenRead(MapPath("TextFile.txt"))
        objFileStreamTxt.Close()

        ' Get a filestream for reading a Image file
        Dim objFileStreamImg As System.IO.FileStream = System.IO.File.OpenRead(MapPath("computer.jpg"))
        objFileStreamImg.Close()

Here is example of how to read FileStream object using "Read" method. Click Here...

This is very useful .Net Tips which is use in day to day programming life.