Why should I use Readers/Write instead of Stream methods?

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Hi folks,

What is the pro an cons against using the reading/writing methods of stream based classes instead of using the reader/writer classes? As far as I could see, the only difference is that using the stream methods avoid me to create two extra instances to operate on the data stream.

Cheers,

Eric
 
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Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

=?Utf-8?B?RXJpYyBDaGF2ZXM=?= said:
What is the pro an cons against using the reading/writing methods of
stream based classes instead of using the reader/writer classes? As
far as I could see, the only difference is that using the stream methods
avoid me to create two extra instances to operate on the data stream.
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Readers and writers are for text-based data. Streams are for binary
data.
 

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