Files and Directories

How to use Temporary Files in C#

by Dave on September 30, 2009

in Files and Directories, Operating System

What exactly is a temporary file? Put simply, a temporary file is a file used by an application for storing temporary data. There is no fixed rule which specifies what this data should be, but generally temporary files (or temp files) are used for storing ‘work data‘. For example Microsoft Office uses temp files to [...]

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Monitoring the File System for Changes

by Dave on September 28, 2009

in Files and Directories, Windows Forms

In this article I am going to show you how to monitor a folder for changes. A reason why you might want to do this is for example if you want to keep two files in different locations in sync. When the original file is changed it would trigger an event and you can update [...]

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Create a Logger using the Trace Listener in C#

by Dave on September 16, 2009

in Files and Directories, Tutorials

When writing software for the commercial world it is crucial your application can log errors, be it to the database, or to a text file, or even to the Windows Event Log if necessary. The .NET Framework contains a mechanism called a Trace Listener. This Listener is an object which directs the trace output to [...]

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Binary Serialization of Objects

by Dave on July 25, 2009

in Files and Directories

A few days back I discussed XML Serialization in these two articles: Basic XML Serialization in C#, and XML Serialization of Collections. In this article we are going to serialize the same Employee object we serialized in those articles, but this time we are going to use Binary serialization instead. Binary Serialization vs. XML Serialization [...]

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File Comparison in C# – Part 3

by Dave on July 20, 2009

in Articles, Files and Directories

In this third and final article of my File Comparison in C# series we will be creating a method which compares file hashes. I suggest you read File Comparison in C# – Part 1, and File Comparison in C# – Part 2 before continuing with this article, if you haven’t already done so. What is [...]

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