I have a file on disk which says that it has 200,000 bytes. This is from a right click on the file with Properties.

My code is as follow:

 ' If the stream is not set yet
                    If oStreamWriter Is Nothing Then

                        ' If we cannot get the encoding
                        loFileFunction.cFile = cFile
                        If Not loFileFunction.GetEncoding() Then

                        End If

                        oStreamWriter = New StreamWriter(oFileStream, loFileFunction.cEncoding)
                    End If

                    loFile = New IO.StreamReader(cFile)
                    oStreamWriter.Write(loFile.ReadToEnd())
                    loFile.Close()
                    nLength = oStreamWriter.BaseStream.Length

Basically, I call loFileFunction.GetEncoding() to obtain the encoding of the file. It is ANSI. So, oStreamWriter can create the stream with the proper encoding. I verified that. The file is in fact created with ANSI encoding.

Then, I use StreamReader() and make uses of its object ReadToEnd(). Just to be sure of the length I have at this point in the oStreamWriter, I store that into nLength. The value is 188416, which is very far from 200000. Where are the missing 11584 bytes?