Binary reader in vb.net

Binary Reader Object works at lower level of Streams. BinaryReader is used for read premitive types as binary values in a specific encoding stream. Binaryreader Object works with Stream Objects that provide access to the underlying bytes. For creating a BinaryReader Object , you have to first create a FileStream Object and then pass BinaryReader to the constructor method .

Dim readStream As FileStream

readStream = New FileStream("c:\testBinary.dat", FileMode.Open)

Dim readBinary As New BinaryReader(readStream)

The main advantages of Binary information is that stores files as Binary format is the best practice of space utilization.

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Imports System.IO

Public Class Form1

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _

ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

        Dim readStream As FileStream

        Dim msg As String

        Try

readStream = New FileStream("c:\testBinary.dat", FileMode.Open)

            Dim readBinary As New BinaryReader(readStream)

            msg = readBinary.ReadString()

            MsgBox(msg)

            readStream.Close()

        Catch ex As Exception

            MsgBox(ex.ToString)

        End Try

    End Sub

End Class

BinaryWriter you can use in the same way to write as binary.