August 2013
Beginner
540 pages
12h 51m
English
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Understand how the Microsoft Windows .NET Framework performs input/output (I/O).
Identify the classes that make up the System::IO namespace.
Perform text I/O.
Read and write files.
Work with files and directories.
Perform binary I/O.
You’ve already used the Console class to perform I/O to and from the console. This chapter introduces you to the System::IO namespace, which contains the classes, structures, and enumerations that implement the Microsoft .NET I/O model.
If you know anything about the Java I/O mechanism as implemented in the java.io package, you’ll find it easy to start working with .NET I/O because the two have many similarities.