C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

Controlling files

When working with files, you often need to control options. To do this, use the File.Open method because it has overloads to specify additional options using the enum values as shown in the following diagram:

The enum types are as follows:

• FileMode: This controls what you want to do with the file
• FileAccess: This controls what level of access you need
• FileShare: This controls locks on the file to allow other processes the specified level of access
• FileOptions: This is for advanced options
• FileAttributes: This is for a FileSystemInfo-derived type, use this enum type to check its Attributes property

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