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File Members

Public:

Constructor

File Constructor Creates a File object.

Properties

Attributes Gets or sets the attributes of the current file.
CreationTime Gets the creation time of the current file.
Directory Creates an instance of the parent directory.
DirectoryName Returns the name of the directory that the file is in.
Exists Determines whether a file exists.
FullName (inherited from FileSystemEntry) Retrieves the full path of the directory or file.
IsDirectory Indicates whether the object is a directory.
IsFile Indicates whether the object is a file.
LastAccessTime Contains the time the current file or directory was last accessed.
LastWriteTime Returns the time when the current file or directory was last written to.
Length Contains the size of the current file or directory.
Name Retrieves the name of the file.

Methods

AppendText Overloaded. Creates a StreamWriter that appends text to a file.
ChangeExtension Changes a file extension.
Copy Overloaded. Copies an existing file to a new file.
CopyTo Overloaded. Copies an existing file to a new file.
Create Overloaded. Creates a file in the specified path.
CreateText Overloaded. Creates a StreamWriter that writes a new text file.
Delete Overloaded. Deletes a file.
Equals (inherited from Object) Determines whether the specified Object is the same instance as the current Object. Subclasses are expected to override this method to support value equality (not reference equality).
FileExists Determines whether a file exists on the specified path.
GetDirectoryNameFromPath Returns the directory path of a file.
GetExtension Returns the extension of the specified path.
GetFileNameFromPath Returns the name and extension parts of the given path.
GetHashCode (inherited from Object) Serves as a hash function for a particular type, suitable for use in hashing algorithms and data structures like a hash table.
GetTempFileName Returns a unique temporary file name and creates a 0-byte file by that name on disk.
GetType (inherited from Object) Gets the Type of the Object.
HasExtension Determines whether a path includes a file extension.
Move Moves a specified file to a new location and potentially a new file name. This method does work across volumes.
MoveTo Moves a given file to a new location and potentially a new file name. This method works across volumes.
Open Overloaded. Opens a file with various read-write and sharing privileges.
OpenRead Overloaded. Creates a read-only Stream around a file..
OpenText Overloaded. Creates a StreamReader that reads from an existing text file.
OpenWrite Overloaded. Creates a read-write Stream.
Refresh Refreshes the state of the object.
ToString Returns the fully qualified path.

Protected:

Methods

Finalize (inherited from Object) Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by the Garbage Collector (GC). This method may be ignored by the runtime; therefore, necessary cleanup operations should be done elsewhere.
MemberwiseClone (inherited from Object) Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Fields

FullPath (inherited from FileSystemEntry) Retrieves the fully qualified path of the directory.

See Also

File Class | System.IO Namespace