OpenRead Method

Deployment Tools Foundation OpenRead Method

Opens the archive file for reading without actually extracting the file to disk.

Declaration Syntax

Visual Basic

Visual C++

public Stream OpenRead()

Public Function OpenRead As Stream

public:
Stream^ OpenRead()

Return Value

A stream for reading directly from the packed file. Like any stream this should be closed/disposed as soon as it is no longer needed.

Assembly: Microsoft.Deployment.Compression (Module: Microsoft.Deployment.Compression) Version: 3.0.0.0 (3.5.1623.0)