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CanRead Property

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Gets a value indicating whether the current stream supports reading.

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

Syntax

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

Property Value

Type: System. . :: . .Boolean
true if the stream supports reading; false if the stream is closed or was opened with write-only access.

Remarks

If a class derived from Stream does not support reading, calls to the Read, ReadByte method throw a NotSupportedException.

If the stream is closed, this property returns false.

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

FileStream Class

System.IO Namespace