Beginning C# 3.0

13.2. File Namespace

The File namespace presents you with a number of useful methods that you will want to use in your programs. A partial list of the methods in the File namespace is presented in Table 13-4.

Table 13-4. Table 13-4

Method	Description
AppendAllText()	Appends a string of text to a specified file. The method is overloaded so that different encoding schemes may be used.
AppendText()	Uses a StreamWriter object to append UTF-8-encoded text to a specified file. UTF-8 is an eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format that is backward-compatible with the ASCII character set.
Copy()	Copies a specified file.
Create()	Creates a specified file.
CreateText()	Creates or opens a file for UTF-8 encoded text
Delete()	Deletes a specified file.
Exists()	Checks to see if a specified file exists.
GetCreationTime()	Returns the date and time a file was created.
Move()	Moves a specified file to a specified location.
Open()	Uses a FileStream object to open a specified file.
OpenRead()	Opens an existing file for reading.
OpenText()	Opens a UTF-8 file for reading.
OpenWrite()	Opens an existing file for writing.
ReadAllBytes()	Opens a binary file and copies the contents into a byte array. (Each ReadAll*() method has a corresponding WriteAll*() method.)
ReadAllLines()	Opens a text file, reads all lines in the file into a string array, and closes it.
ReadAllText()	Opens a text file, reads the contents into a string, and closes it.
Replace()	Replaces the content of one file with that of another file, deleting the original file and ...