In .NET framework filestream exposes a Stream around a file, supporting both synchronous and asynchronous read and write operations. ActionScript 3 for AIR 2 and above also uses FileStream, which supports both synchronous and asynchronous read and write operations.
Questions tagged [filestream]
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FileSystemWatcher triggers for filestream open
I have a filesystemwatcher that will trigger an event when a file is modified. I want to read from that file once the lock has been removed. At the moment I am just trying to open the file once the event is triggered, when A large file is being…

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iTextSharp + FileStream = Corrupt PDF file
I am trying to create a pdf file with iTextSharp. My attempt writes the content of the pdf to a MemoryStream so I can write the result both into file and a database BLOB. The file gets created, has a size of about 21kB and it looks like a pdf when…

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How to read character in a file 1 by 1 c#
I want my program to read a text file all characters 1 by 1 and whereever it finds a double-quote ("), it adds a semicolon before that inverted comma. For eg we have a paragraph in a text file as follow:
This is a paragraph which conains lots and…

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How do I get the name of a file generated with a stream in C#?
I'm building a Windows 8 metro app with XAML/C#. I'm saving an .xml file my data structure with a stream, like this:
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyObjectType));
using (var stream = await…

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JPEG data-stream to TImage
I have some image-files stored into one file (some kind of archive). That file looks like this:
Well, it's separated into two segments - header and data-segment. Header (green) contains various info, such as album name, location, date/time,…

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How-To: Validate a FileStream is a valid PDF document with .NET
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Detect if PDF file is correct (header PDF)
I want to validate that the data in a FileStream instance represents a valid PDF document. Specifically, I need to know that Adobe Reader will be able to successfully open the…

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FileStream not closing file
I have the following code:
using (MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream())
{
Program.api.GetDocument(result, str);
using (FileStream fileStream = File.Create(filePath))
{
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SQL Server PDF Full-Text Search not working on FileStream PDF File
I cannot get the Full-Text search to work on PDF files I am loading into my SQL Db via FileStream.
Version: SQL Server 2008 R2 (Developer Edition - doing proof of concept)
OS: Windows 7
Steps I have taken.
Installed the Adobe iFilter
Made sure…

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Looping through lines of txt file uploaded via FileUpload control
I want to select a simple .txt file that contains lines of strings using a FileUpload control. But instead of actually saving the file I want to loop through each line of text and display each line in a ListBox control.
Example of a text…

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inotify - how to find out which user has modified file?
I'm looking for guidance on how to find out which user has modified a particular file. While inotify is great to get notification when a particular file is touched, how do I figure out which user has modified that file? I can think of using lsof but…

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Python command line 'file input stream'
I'm fairly new to python coming from C/C++, I was wondering how I would get my 'main.py' to reconize/use the imput given from a bash shell as:
python main.py < text.txt
(the file is in plain text)

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Strange behavior with FileStream.WriteFile
I'm working on a program that does heavy read/write random access on huge file (till 64 GB). Files are specifically structured and to make access on them I've created a framework; after a while I tried to test performance on it and I've noticed that…

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operator precedence (void* before bool?)
When answering this question I made some research which really confuses me.
I noticed that two ifstreams that succesfully open are not equal but two ifstreams that fail are.
At first i checked cplusplus.com. The operator ! returns the status of the…

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How to Access File Descriptor of Open File
Is there any way to access the file descriptor of a file opened in c++? So ...
#include
#include
using namespace std;
int main() {
ifstream inputFile( "file.txt",ios::in );
cout << inputFile.fileDesc <<…

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XmlDocument.WriteTo truncates resultant file
Trying to serialize an XmlDocument to file. The XmlDocument is rather large; however, in the debugger I can see that the InnerXml property has all of the XML blob in it -- it's not truncated there.
Here's the code that writes my XmlDocument object…

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