Chapter 10. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization
This chapter is about reading and writing to files and streams, text encoding, and serialization.
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- Managing the filesystem
- Reading and writing with streams
- Encoding text
- Serializing object graphs
Managing the filesystem
Your applications will often need to perform input and output with files and directories. The System.IO namespace contains classes for this purpose.
Managing directories
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