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Deployment Tools Foundation
OpenText Method
Deployment Tools Foundation Namespaces ► Microsoft.Deployment.Compression ► ArchiveFileInfo ► OpenText()()()()
Opens the archive file reading text with UTF-8 encoding without
actually extracting the file to disk.
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C# | Visual Basic | Visual C++ |
public StreamReader OpenText()
Public Function OpenText As StreamReader
public: StreamReader^ OpenText()
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StreamReader
A reader for reading text directly from the packed file. Like any reader this should be closed/disposed as soon as it is no longer needed.
A reader for reading text directly from the packed file. Like any reader this should be closed/disposed as soon as it is no longer needed.
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To open an archived text file with different encoding, use the
OpenRead()()()() method and pass the returned stream to one of
the StreamReader constructor overloads.
Assembly: Microsoft.Deployment.Compression (Module: Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.dll) Version: 3.0.0.0 (3.9.1006.0)