Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core

© Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse 2017

Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3018-3_20

20. File I/O and Object Serialization

Andrew Troelsen¹  and Philip Japikse²

(1)Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(2)West Chester, Ohio, USA

When you create desktop applications, the ability to save information between user sessions is commonplace. This chapter examines a number of I/O-related topics as seen through the eyes of the .NET Framework. The first order of business is to explore the core types defined in the System.IO namespace and learn how to modify a machine’s directory and file structure programmatically. The next task is to explore various ways to read from and write to character-based, binary-based, string-based, ...