Deployment Tools Foundation
OpenText Method (fileName)
Deployment Tools Foundation Namespaces ► Microsoft.Deployment.Compression ► ArchiveInfo ► OpenText(String)
Opens a file inside the archive for reading text with UTF-8 encoding
without actually extracting the file to disk.
Declaration Syntax| C# | Visual Basic | Visual C++ |
public StreamReader OpenText( string fileName )
Public Function OpenText ( _ fileName As String _ ) As StreamReader
public: StreamReader^ OpenText( String^ fileName )
Parameters- fileName (String)
- The name of the file in the archive. Also includes the internal path of the file, if any. File name matching is case-insensitive.
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(String) method and pass the returned stream to one of
the StreamReader constructor overloads.