FileStream vs/differences StreamWriter?

Question

Question:

What is different between FileStream and StreamWriter in .Net?

What context are you supposed to use it?

Answer 1

A FileStream is explicitly intended for working files.

A StreamWriter can be used to stream to any type of Stream - network sockets, files, etc.

ScottGu explains the different Stream objects quite nicely here: http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/Csharp/cs_data/streaming/article.php/c4223