textreader vs stream reader

4 Apr 2007 8:52 AM

AVL

hi,
i'm a newbie.......
i would like to know the usage of text reader and streamreader...
which of these would give better performance.....
when shud one use textreader and streamreader.....

4 Apr 2007 11:22 AM

Kevin Spencer

System.IO. TextReader is an abstract (MustInherit) class, which cannot be
used directly. StreamReader inherits TextReader, and is used for reading
character data from streams.

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"AVL" <A**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:09F0E82F-AC1C-45FA-8C26-10A1FE682677@microsoft.com...
> hi,
> i'm a newbie.......
> i would like to know the usage of text reader and streamreader...
> which of these would give better performance.....
> when shud one use textreader and streamreader.....