'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Function OpenRead( _
   ByVal share As FileShare, _
   ByVal representationType As RepresentationType _
) As Stream

'Usage
 
Dim instance As FtpFile
Dim share As FileShare
Dim representationType As RepresentationType
Dim value As Stream
 
value = instance.OpenRead(share, representationType)

public Stream OpenRead( 
   FileShare share,
   RepresentationType representationType
)

Parameters

share

A System.IO.FileShare constant that determines how the file will be shared by different processes.

representationType

A RepresentationType value indicating how the data is transferred from the FTP server.

Return Value

The returned stream is guaranteed to be readable, but is not seekable.

Since the stream returned by the OpenRead method is not seekable (meaning that neither the length or position can be retrieved), data can be read by either looping through the stream until the end of the stream has been reached, or a StreamReader can be created around the stream to read the data.

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

FtpFile Class
FtpFile Members
Overload List