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CanSeek Property

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Gets a value indicating whether the current stream supports seeking.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Overrides ReadOnly Property CanSeek As Boolean
public override bool CanSeek { get; }
public:
virtual property bool CanSeek {
    bool get () override;
}
abstract CanSeek : bool with get
override CanSeek : bool with get
override function get CanSeek () : boolean

Property Value

Type: System. . :: . .Boolean
true if the stream supports seeking; false if the stream is closed or if the FileStream was constructed from an operating-system handle such as a pipe or output to the console.

Remarks

If a class derived from Stream does not support seeking, calls to Length, SetLength, Position, and Seek throw a NotSupportedException.

If the stream is closed, this property returns false.

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

FileStream Class

System.IO Namespace