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TextWriter is an abstract base within the .NET Framework, and represents a writer that can write a sequential series of characters.

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Implementing a Derived Class of TextWriter

I have two classes, none of which I can change in any way: Class 1: Takes a TextWriter as constructor parameter and uses it as an output stream. Class 2: Provides a method WriteLine(string). I need an adapter, such that all the output of Class1 is…
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Sharing violation IOException while reading and writing to file C#

Here is my code: public static TextWriter twLog = null; private int fileNo = 1; private string line = null; TextReader tr = new StreamReader("file_no.txt"); TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("file_no.txt"); line = tr.ReadLine(); if(line != null){ …
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Writing a Text File in memory and saving it with savefiledialog

I am trying to make a text file in memory, add some lines to it and at the end save the file in a text file. I can handle the savedialog part but I dont know how to get the text file from memory. Any help and tips will be appriciated. What I am…
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Writing Unix style text file in C#

I'm trying to write a text file with Unix-style newlines with my C# program. For some reason the following code doesn't work: TextWriter fileTW = ... fileTW.NewLine = "\n"; fileTW.WriteLine("Hello World!"); Neither does this: TextWriter fileTW =…
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Efficient way to write a lot of lines to a text file

I started off doing something as follows: using (TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(filePath, append)) { foreach (MyClassA myClassA in myClassAs) { textWriter.WriteLine(myIO.GetCharArray(myClassA)); if…
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Setting the color for Console.Error writes

I’m writing a console application that has a custom logger in it. The logger needs to color anything sent to Console.Error in red. I now have third party references that also write to Console.Out and Console.Error so I have to do this in a way that…
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How to output Byte Order Mark when writing to TextWriter?

i am writing text to a TextWriter. i want the UTF-16 Byte Order Mark (BOM) to appear in the output: public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) { context.Response.ContentEncoding = new UnicodeEncoding(true, true); …
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C# TextWriter, allow reading of files:

using (TextWriter writer = File.CreateText(path2)) { writer.Write(SomeText); } This is problematic piece of code. When I write to file, it's ok, until other app open the…
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Is there a TextWriter child class that fires event if text is written?

I have written a method that accepts a TextWriter as an argument (Usually Console.Out, but not necessarily). When I call this method, some progress info is written to the TextWriter. However, since this method can run a long time, I want to update…
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Force no BOM when saving XML

I'm saving a XML file that is used by an external tool. The tool sadly doesn't understand the encoding BOM (Byte Order Mark: EF BB BF) at the beginning of the file:  ... 00000000h: EF BB BF 3C 3F 78 6D 6C 20…
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Cannot write to a closed TextWriter

I am trying to write text to my txt file. After the first write the application crash with error Cannot write to a closed TextWriter My list contains links that the browser opens and I want to save all of them in txt file (like a log). My…
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How do you use a .Net TextWriter with Azure WebJobs

I want to do some simple debugging, and Console.Writeline no longer seems to be supported by Azure WebJobs. I know using a TextWriter class is the answer, and I just inject it into my method. What I don't understand is how I call that method. I…
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Is there a way to check if a TextWriter is closed?

I'm writing a class that exports data to a CSV file, and its constructor takes in a TextWriter. The reason I'm using a TextWriter rather than a StreamWriter is so that it would make testing easier: I can use the same constructor for writing to a…
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Using TextWriter.Synchronized or having lock in multithreaded file IO - C# WPF .net 4.5

Ok there are 2 ways of writing text to a file in multi threaded system Which one is better than other First case : having a static object to lock streamwriter and do operations Second case having : TextWriter twWaitingToBeFetched; …
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Redirecting a Stream to a Text Box in real-time

I have got an interesting dilemma where my application can run as a Console App or a Windows Forms App. Since I do not want to write a shed load of code like this all over my application: If ( IsConsoleApp() ) { // process Console input and…
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