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Novice Question - Generic Class Writing and Reading Files

Administrator

Is there a class in C# to write or read binary information to/from files that would accept anything (a struct, for instance) as a parameter to write/read, regardless of its type ? BinaryWriter/BinaryReader just do not do what I need.

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Administrator23y ago
As you pointed, FileStream requires a byte[] as a parameter for reading/writing. What I need is something more generic, that would read/write whatever is passed as a parameter, not just a byte[]. I am trying now through serialization, I will see what I get. Thanx for your help.
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Administrator23y ago
I hope I get you right, but if you want to write/read anything to/from file, use a FileStream and a byte[]. Change anything, you want to write/read to a byte array and do the read/write. Works fine for me, I´m sometimes using this for writing classes to file, however, I didn´t try it with a struct... Hope, that helps, Greetings, Gilthanas
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