Treffer: Programming I/O with Streams in Visual Basic .NET.

This article introduces stream-based programming and the .NET Framework classes associated with input/output (I/O) programming. I/O programming changes in both Visual Basic.NET and in the Microsoft .NET Framework represent far more than just new syntax and method names. There is a complete paradigm shift because everything is based on the concept of a stream. Streams create a consistent I/O programming style regardless of the source or destination of the data. A stream is an object that represents a generic sequence of bytes. Any type of data can be stored as a sequence of bytes, so the details of writing and reading data can be abstracted.