Read a file of records with a Struct in C#

[Eddieb7]

HI,

I come from a dephi background and i am in the process of moving to c#.
In Delphi I can declare a file as being of a recordrtpe (or Struct in
c#).

i.e
FileName = File of TempRecType

where TempRecTypeis declared as
Record TempRecType
longint TempIntVal,
string[14] Shortstring,
shortint TempIntVal2
end;

To read from this file I would simply create a variable of TempRecType
and read the
file straight into the variable.

can anybody help me to do this in C#?

Cheers
Eddie

[Vadym Stetsyak]

Hello, Eddieb7!

You wrote on 5 Oct 2006 13:54:53 -0700:

EHI,

EI come from a dephi background and i am in the process of moving to
Ec#.
EIn Delphi I can declare a file as being of a recordrtpe (or Struct in
Ec#).

Ei.e
E FileName = File of TempRecType

Ewhere TempRecTypeis declared as
E Record TempRecType
E longint TempIntVal,
E string[14] Shortstring,
E shortint TempIntVal2
E end;

ETo read from this file I would simply create a variable of
ETempRecType
Eand read the
Efile straight into the variable.

Ecan anybody help me to do this in C#?

In .NET world this is done through serialization.
Have a look at here
(
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...erializer.aspx )
and here
(
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...formatter.aspx )

--
With best regards, Vadym Stetsyak.
Blog: http://vadmyst.blogspot.com

[Arne Vajhøj]

Eddieb7 wrote:

I come from a dephi background and i am in the process of moving to c#.
In Delphi I can declare a file as being of a recordrtpe (or Struct in
c#).

i.e
FileName = File of TempRecType

where TempRecTypeis declared as
Record TempRecType
longint TempIntVal,
string[14] Shortstring,
shortint TempIntVal2
end;

To read from this file I would simply create a variable of TempRecType
and read the
file straight into the variable.

can anybody help me to do this in C#?

Two different approaches:

1) read/write individual parts with System.IO.Binar yReader/BinaryWriter
on top of a stream

2) read/write using
System.Runtime. Serialization.F ormatters.Binar y.BinaryFormatt er
on top of a stream.
Arne

[Eddieb7]

Thanks Guys,

Both your comments have been very helpful!!