Unable to read beyond the end of the stream

Question

When I am reading from the binary file following exception is raised: Unable to read beyond the end of the stream.

Puran Mehra · Answer

here is the code which i wrote for writing to binary file: using System; using System.IO; namespace BinaryWrite { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { BinaryWriter bw; int age = 23; string name = "Mike Thomson" ; double salary = 34000.00; try { FileStream fs = new FileStream ( "c:\btest" , FileMode .Append); bw = new BinaryWriter (fs); } catch ( IOException e) { Console .WriteLine(e.Message + "
 There was some problem in opening the file" ); return ; } try { Console .WriteLine( "Writing data in binary format to file" ); bw.Write(age); bw.Write(name); bw.Write(salary); } catch ( IOException e) { Console .WriteLine(e.Message + "
 Error in writing to file" ); } finally { Console .WriteLine( "Data written to the file in binary format" ); Console .ReadLine(); bw.Close(); } } } } here is the code which i wrote for reading from a binary file: using System; using System.IO; namespace BinaryRead { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { BinaryReader br; int age; string name; double salary; try { FileStream fs = new FileStream ( "c:\btest" , FileMode .Open); br = new BinaryReader (fs); br.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin .Begin); } catch ( IOException e) { Console .WriteLine(e.Message + "
 There was some problem in opening the file" ); return ; } try { age = br.ReadInt32(); Console .WriteLine( "Age : {0}" , age); name = br.ReadString(); Console .WriteLine( "Name : {0}" , name); salary = br.ReadDouble(); Console .WriteLine( "Salary : ${0}" , salary); Console .WriteLine( "Data of in binary file" ); Console .ReadLine(); } catch ( IOException e) { Console .WriteLine(e.Message + "
 Error in reading from the file" ); } finally { Console .ReadLine(); br.Close(); } } } }

naura pax · Answer

Hi there, I think we need to review the code, it could be the terminating condition that fails. Please throw some light on that. But maybe i'm wrong. Thanx in advance.

Unable to read beyond the end of the stream

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