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Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
This chapter is about reading and writing to files and streams, text encoding, and serialization.
We will cover the following topics:
- Managing the filesystem
- Reading and writing with streams
- Encoding and decoding text
- Reading and writing with random access handles
- Serializing object graphs
Managing the filesystem
Your applications will often need to perform input and output operations with files and directories in different environments. The System and System.IO namespaces contain classes for this purpose.
Handling cross-platform environments and filesystems
Let’s explore how to handle cross-platform environments and the differences between Windows and Linux or macOS. Paths are different for ...
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