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.
Declaration Syntax| C# | Visual Basic | Visual C++ |
public StreamReader OpenText()
Public Function OpenText As StreamReader
public: StreamReader^ OpenText()
Return Value
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.
Remarks
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.