IBuffer Interface

Definition

public interface class IBuffer

/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, 65536)]
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Guid(2421821408, 48211, 4575, 140, 73, 0, 30, 79, 198, 134, 218)]
struct IBuffer

[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(typeof(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract), 65536)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Guid(2421821408, 48211, 4575, 140, 73, 0, 30, 79, 198, 134, 218)]
public interface IBuffer

Public Interface IBuffer

Derived

Windows.Storage.Streams.Buffer

Attributes

ContractVersionAttribute GuidAttribute

Windows 10 requirements

Examples

This code example shows how to retrieve a string from an IBuffer of UTF-8 bytes.

public string RetrieveStringFromUtf8IBuffer(Windows.Storage.Streams.IBuffer theBuffer)
{
    using (var dataReader = Windows.Storage.Streams.DataReader.FromBuffer(theBuffer))
    {
        dataReader.UnicodeEncoding = Windows.Storage.Streams.UnicodeEncoding.Utf8;
        return dataReader.ReadString(theBuffer.Length);
    }
}

Remarks

For more info, see Create, write, and read a file, which shows how to read and write bytes to a file by using a Buffer.

WriteableBitmap.PixelBuffer is an example of a property that returns an IBuffer that can't be written to directly. See that topic for a language-specific code example showing to write to the underlying pixel content in the buffer.

Properties

Applies to

See also

• Buffer
• Create, write, and read a file
• WriteableBitmap.PixelBuffer