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Position Property

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When overridden in a derived class, gets or sets the position within the current stream.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Public MustOverride Property Position As Long
public abstract long Position { get; set; }
public:
virtual property long long Position {
    long long get () abstract;
    void set (long long value) abstract;
}
abstract Position : int64 with get, set
abstract function get Position () : long
abstract function set Position (value : long)

Property Value

Type: System. . :: . .Int64
The current position within the stream.

Remarks

The stream must support seeking to get or set the position. Use the CanSeek property to determine whether the stream supports seeking.

Seeking to any location beyond the length of the stream is supported.

The Position property does not keep track of the number of bytes from the stream that have been consumed, skipped, or both.

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

Stream Class

System.IO Namespace