Streams and Formatters in .NET
Streams and Formatters in .NET
There's a great article over on DevX that covers the Stream and Formatter architectures. It does so from a VB.NET point of view, which is fine because the article is attempting to teach people converting from VB6- to VB.NET to move away from the proprietary VB file operations. In general, the article is generic enough that the knowledge is applicable in all languages and is definitely worth the read.