Does FileStream.GetAccessControl exist?

[Dave]

According to the help, under .NET2.0 the FileStream class has public members
GetAccessControl and SetAccessControl, but when I try to call these on an
instantiation of FileStream I get a compiler error. Oddly, the error says
"System.IO.Stream does not contain a definition for GetAccessControl".
Am I missing something??
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Dave

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Dave

You are not intantiating a FileSteam, but something that returns a Stream, or you are casting the object to Stream, hence the error message. The code below will work.

using System.IO;

using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"c:\my.file", FileMode.Open))
{
System.Security.AccessControl.FileSecurity fc = fs.GetAccessControl();
}

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Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

[Dave]

Aaaarrrrgh. You're absolutely right. I'm so sorry
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Dave
"Morten Wennevik" wrote:

Hi Dave

You are not intantiating a FileSteam, but something that returns a Stream, or you are casting the object to Stream, hence the error message. The code below will work.

using System.IO;

using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"c:\my.file", FileMode.Open))
{
System.Security.AccessControl.FileSecurity fc = fs.GetAccessControl();
}

--
Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]