Chapter 28. Working with I/O

In This Chapter

• Files and Directories 1392

• Monitoring File System Activity 1400

• Readers and Writers 1401

• Streams: The Bread and Butter of I/O 1408

• A Primer to (Named) Pipes 1423

• Memory-Mapped Files in a Nutshell 1426

• Overview of Other I/O Capabilities 1429

Almost every application must deal with input and output. I/O is an incredibly broad term that could apply to user interaction all the way to making calls over a network. From a narrower point of view, file operations are commonly referred to as I/O operations.

In this chapter, we look at what the Base Class Library (BCL) classifies as I/O by means of the System.IO namespace, which mostly deals with operations on files and directories. This chapter ...

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