Public Overridable Function GetPreamble As Byte()

Dim instance As Encoding
Dim returnValue As Byte()

returnValue = instance.GetPreamble

public virtual byte[] GetPreamble ()

public:
virtual array<unsigned char>^ GetPreamble ()

public byte[] GetPreamble ()

public function GetPreamble () : byte[]

Imports System
Imports System.Text

Namespace GetPreambleExample
   Class GetPreambleExampleClass
      Shared Sub Main()
         Dim [unicode] As Encoding = Encoding.Unicode

         ' Get the preamble for the Unicode encoder. 
         ' In this case the preamble contains the byte order mark (BOM).
         Dim preamble As Byte() = [unicode].GetPreamble()

         ' Make sure a preamble was returned 
         ' and is large enough to contain a BOM.
         If preamble.Length >= 2 Then
            If preamble(0) = &HFE And preamble(1) = &HFF Then
               Console.WriteLine("The Unicode encoder is encoding in big-endian order.")
            Else
               If preamble(0) = &HFF And preamble(1) = &HFE Then
                  Console.WriteLine("The Unicode encoder is encoding in little-endian order.")
               End If
            End If
         End If
      End Sub
   End Class
End Namespace

using System;
using System.Text;

namespace GetPreambleExample
{
   class GetPreambleExampleClass
   {
      static void Main()
      {
         Encoding unicode = Encoding.Unicode;

         // Get the preamble for the Unicode encoder. 
         // In this case the preamble contains the byte order mark (BOM).
         byte[] preamble = unicode.GetPreamble();

         // Make sure a preamble was returned 
         // and is large enough to containa BOM.
         if(preamble.Length >= 2)
         {
            if(preamble[0] == 0xFE && preamble[1] == 0xFF)
            {
               Console.WriteLine("The Unicode encoder is encoding in big-endian order.");
            }
            else if(preamble[0] == 0xFF && preamble[1] == 0xFE)
            {
               Console.WriteLine("The Unicode encoder is encoding in little-endian order.");
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Text;
int main()
{
   Encoding^ unicode = Encoding::Unicode;
   
   // Get the preamble for the Unicode encoder. 
   // In this case the preamblecontains the Byte order mark (BOM).
   array<Byte>^preamble = unicode->GetPreamble();
   
   // Make sure a preamble was returned 
   // and is large enough to containa BOM.
   if ( preamble->Length >= 2 )
   {
      
      // if (preamble->Item[0] == 0xFE && preamble->Item[1] == 0xFF) 
      if ( preamble[ 0 ] == 0xFE && preamble[ 1 ] == 0xFF )
      {
         Console::WriteLine( "The Unicode encoder is encoding in big-endian order." );
      }
      // else if (preamble->Item[0] == 0xFF && preamble->Item[1] == 0xFE) 
      else
      
      // else if (preamble->Item[0] == 0xFF && preamble->Item[1] == 0xFE) 
      if ( preamble[ 0 ] == 0xFF && preamble[ 1 ] == 0xFE )
      {
         Console::WriteLine( "The Unicode encoder is encoding in little-endian order." );
      }
   }
}

package GetPreambleExample; 

import System.*;
import System.Text.*;

class GetPreambleExampleClass
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Encoding unicode = Encoding.get_Unicode();

        // Get the preamble for the Unicode encoder. 
        // In this case the preamble contains the byte order mark (BOM).
        ubyte preamble[] = unicode.GetPreamble();

        // Make sure a preamble was returned 
        // and is large enough to containa BOM.
        if(preamble.length >= 2) {
            if(preamble[0] == 0xFE && preamble[1] == 0xFF) {
                Console.WriteLine("The Unicode encoder is "
                + "encoding in big-endian order.");
            }
            else {
                if(preamble[0] == 0xFF && preamble[1] == 0xFE) {
                    Console.WriteLine("The Unicode encoder is" 
                    + " encoding in little-endian order.");
                }
            }
        }
    } //main
} //GetPreambleExampleClass