TextWriter.Null Field

Definition

Namespace:

System.IO

Assembly:

System.Runtime.dll

Source:

TextWriter.cs

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

public: static initonly System::IO::TextWriter ^ Null;

public static readonly System.IO.TextWriter Null;

 staticval mutable Null : System.IO.TextWriter

Public Shared ReadOnly Null As TextWriter 

Field Value

TextWriter

Remarks

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.

See also

• StreamWriter
• StringWriter
• File and Stream I/O
• How to: Read Text from a File
• How to: Write Text to a File