14.3. Stream Adapters

A Stream deals only in bytes; to read or write data types such as strings, integers, or XML elements, you must plug in an adapter. Here’s what the Framework provides:

Text adapters (for string and character data)

TextReader, TextWriter

StreamReader, StreamWriter

StringReader, StringWriter

Binary adapters (for primitive types such as int, bool, string, and float)

BinaryReader, BinaryWriter

XML adapters (covered in Chapter 11)

XmlReader, XmlWriter