Your applications will often need to perform input and output with files and directories. The System.IO
namespace contains classes for this purpose.
In Visual Studio 2017, press Ctrl + Shift + N or choose File | New | Project....
In the New Project dialog, in the Installed | Templates list, select .NET Core. In the center list, select Console App (.NET Core), type Name as Ch10_FileSystem
, change the location to C:\Code
, type the solution name as Chapter10
, and then click on OK.
In Visual Studio Code, in the Integrated Terminal, make a new directory named Chapter10
, and a subdirectory named Ch10_FileSystem
. Open the folder and enter the command dotnet new console
.
At the top of the Program.cs
file, add the following import statements. Note that we will statically import the Directory
type to simplify our code:
using static System.Console; using System.IO; using static System.IO.Directory;
In the Main
method, write the following...