For an example of creating a file and writing text to a file, see How to: Write Text to a File. For an example of reading text from a file, see How to: Read Text from a File. For an example of reading from and writing to a binary file, see How to: Read and Write to a Newly Created Data File. For an example of asynchronous file I/O, see Asynchronous File I/O.
The default implementation of BeginWrite on a stream calls the Write method synchronously, which means that Write might block on some streams. However, instances of classes such as FileStream and NetworkStream fully support asynchronous operations if the instances have been opened asynchronously. Therefore, calls to BeginWrite will not block on those streams. You can override BeginWrite (by using async delegates, for example) to provide asynchronous behavior.
Pass the IAsyncResult returned by the current method to EndWrite to ensure that the write completes and frees resources appropriately. EndWrite must be called once for every call to BeginWrite. You can do this either by using the same code that called BeginWrite or in a callback passed to BeginWrite. If an error occurs during an asynchronous write, an exception will not be thrown until EndWrite is called with the IAsyncResult returned by this method.
If a stream is writable, writing at the end of the stream expands the stream.
The current position in the stream is updated when you issue the asynchronous read or write, not when the I/O operation completes. Multiple simultaneous asynchronous requests render the request completion order uncertain.
Use the CanWrite property to determine whether the current instance supports writing.
If a stream is closed or you pass an invalid argument, exceptions are thrown immediately from BeginWrite. Errors that occur during an asynchronous write request, such as a disk failure during the I/O request, occur on the thread pool thread and throw exceptions when calling EndWrite.