- Opening a Binary File
- Working with the File Pointer
- Reading Binary Data from a File
- Writing Binary Data
- Summing Up
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Writing Binary Data
You use the BinaryWriter class to write binary data to a file. Like BinaryReader, BinaryWriter must be associated with a FileStream object that's connected to the file. Here's how (assuming that fs refers to the FileStream ):
Dim bw As BinaryWriter bw = New BinaryWriter(fs)
To write a single item of data to the file, use the Write() method. You can write any of .NET's simple datatypes, such as Char, Integer, or Double, with this method:
bw.Write( variable )
You can also write part or all of a byte or character array to the file. To write the entire array, pass the array name as the argument to Write(). To write part of the array, use this syntax (see Table 6 for the arguments):
bw.Write(array , index , coun)
Table 6 Write() Arguments.
Argument |
Description |
array |
The name of the array. |
index |
The array position at which to start. |
count |
The number of array elements to write to the file. |
If count + index is greater than the length of the array, an exception is thrown.
When finished writing data, be sure to call the BinaryWriter.Close() method to close the writer and the underlying FileStream.