Collections in C# are similar to arrays, but with added benefits. Perhaps most importantly, they enable the developer to take advantage of rich sorting, filtering, and aggregation features available in the .NET Core framework through LINQ queries. In this tutorial, you will learn about the collection type known as a generic list, List<T>, including how … Read more
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the StreamReader object to read a specific line number of a text file in your C# applications. Recall that StreamReader can be used to read the contents of a text file in C#. The class has methods for reading individual characters, reading to the end of … Read more
To read a text file in C#, you will use a StreamReader object. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use StreamReader to read the contents of an existing file. For this tutorial, you will start by creating a blank file on your Desktop called ReadFile.txt. Next, copy and paste the following five lines … Read more
To asynchronously write to a text file in C#, you will use the StreamWriter constructor within an async method. StreamWriter can also be used to write strings to a file synchronously, or to append to an existing file. To use StreamWriter asynchronously, include the following using directives in your project file. using System.IO; using System.Threading.Tasks; … Read more
To write to a text file in C#, you will use a StreamWriter object. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use StreamWriter to write a string to a file synchronously. You can also use StreamWriter to append text to an existing file and to write to a file asynchronously. Using StreamWriter to Write … Read more
For a given class in C#, you may need different ways to pass arguments to it. You can do this by overloading a constructor. Overloaded constructors enable you to initialize objects of the same class in different ways – for example, by passing in different numbers of initial parameters. What is Constructor Overloading? In this … Read more
