I found a great article on the internet today that explains the System.IO namespace really well.  If you need a solid understanding of how to write c#.net code to handle FileStream, MemoryStream, NetworkStream, CryptoStream, BufferedStream, BinaryReader, BinaryWriter, StreamReader and StreamWriter, StringReader and StringWriter, and TextReader and TextWrite, you really need to start here.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Derk Benisch