Chapter 7. Stream and File Operations
IN THIS CHAPTER
One of the most important issues any programmer faces is how to go about storing and retrieving information on disk. This issue can be surprisingly complex. The .NET Base Class Library provides a number of classes that simplify the issue somewhat. The library is a substantial improvement over the file-related operations Visual Basic programmers had available to them previously.
This chapter focuses on the .NET namespaces related to directories, files, and synchronous and asynchronous reading from and writing to data streams. First, an overview ...
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