8. Files
Consciousness ... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. ... A “river” or a “stream” are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.
—William James
I can only assume that a “Do Not File” document is filed in a “Do Not File” file.
—Senator Frank Church, Senate Intelligence Subcommittee Hearing, 1975
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll learn:
• To use file processing to implement a business app.
• To create, write to and read from files.
• To become familiar with sequential-access file processing.
• To use classes StreamWriter and StreamReader to write text to and read text from files.
• To organize GUI commands in menus.
• To manage resources with Using statements and the Finally block of a Try statement.
Outline
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