Can you keep a StreamReader from disposing the underlying stream?

Question

Is there a way to do this:

this.logFile = File.Open(\"what_r_u_doing.log\", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite);

using(var sr = new StreamReader(th         


        

Answer 1

.NET 4.5 will finally fix this problem with a new constructors on StreamReader and StreamWriter that take a leaveOpen parameter:

StreamReader(Stream stream, Encoding encoding, bool detectEncodingFromByteOrderMarks, int bufferSize, bool leaveOpen)

StreamWriter(Stream stream, System.Text.Encoding encoding, int bufferSize, bool leaveOpen)