Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

Chapter 18. Files and Streams in .NET

	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

	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 read part of it all the way through.
	--Samuel Goldwyn

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn:

• To create, read, write and update files using C++/CLI.

• The C++/CLI streams class hierarchy.

• To use classes File and Directory to obtain information about files and directories on your computer.

• To become familiar with sequential-access file processing with managed code.

• To use classes FileStream,