File Handling in C# - Detailed Information

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Hello All,

My professional core area is working and handling files. I have surfed the web and also referred numerous books. but to my surprise none of them provided me the detailed indepth information on file handling.

Could someone suggest me some web sites which offer top to bottom information on file handling?

Thanks in anticipation.

Posted 27-Feb-14 4:20am

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ZurdoDev 27-Feb-14 10:35am

Can you be more specific as to what you are looking for?

Dave Kreskowiak 27-Feb-14 10:57am

Define "file handling".

There really isn't that much to any area I would call "file handling". Copying and moving files is easy. Opening and reading various kinds of files is easy. Text files is just a bunch of string manipulation. XML files aren't really discussed under the heading of "file handling". Really, everything yo do with files is easy, but is not discussed under the "file handling" header, so there isn't going to be anything found under those search terms.

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2014-02-27T05:42:00

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My professional core area is working and handling files

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but to my surprise none of them provided me the detailed indepth information on file handling.

To my understanding you should be the definitive reference on the argument.

On the serious side, the .NET framework provides the System.IO namespace, you might find the documentation at MSDN[^]. If you need a lower level access, then you migh call the Windows API (via, for instance, P/Invoke).

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2014-02-27T05:32:00

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"Handling files" cannot be a real "professional core area", unless you develop file systems. This is the same as saying that your profession is not driving, but pressing on the gas pedal.

Therefore, I doubt that helping you much would worth time. You just need to learn standard documentation, MDSN. This will include: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

But you need to be able to do lot more, because your statement on your narrow specialization cannot be considered seriously. Nobody needs car operator who only can press on gas. :-)

—SA

Posted 27-Feb-14 5:32am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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phil.o 27-Feb-14 11:38am

Could we imagine some kind of specialization called "Finding the brakes"? :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Feb-14 11:39am

Sure, this is a very popular activity... Just watch some Youtube video... :-)
—SA

[no name] 27-Feb-14 18:54pm

We have a saying "If it takes one programmer one hour it will take ten programmers ten hours". This is specialization.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Feb-14 22:47pm

No, this is the law of nature... :-)
—SA

CPallini 27-Feb-14 15:56pm

My parallel 5. :-)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Feb-14 16:10pm

My parallel thank you. :-)
—SA

Member 10588642 28-Feb-14 0:41am

Sorry about the confusion. Let me be more specific on my question. I deal with lot of file handling and transferes like directory recursions, generating file lists along with information like author, creation timestamp, encryption, compression, signature verification, etc. Most of the website which I came across speaks only about on how to create, open , read, write files. Nothing beyond this. So, I am looking for some really advanced file handling concepts.

Thanks in advance.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Feb-14 1:12am

Nevertheless, the answer is: MSDN documentation is quite enough. If you have any particular concerns, please feel free to ask more questions.
—SA