What are I/O classes in C#?



The System.IO namespace has various classes useful for performing various operations with files, such as creating and deleting files, reading from or writing to a file, closing a file etc.

The following are the I/O classes in C# −

Sr.No. I/O Class & Description
1 BinaryReader
Reads primitive data from a binary stream.
2 BinaryWriter
Writes primitive data in binary format.
3 BufferedStream
A temporary storage for a stream of bytes.
4 Directory
Helps in manipulating a directory structure.
5 DirectoryInfo
Used for performing operations on directories.
6 DriveInfo
Provides information for the drives.
7 File
Helps in manipulating files.
8 FileInfo
Used for performing operations on files.
9 FileStream
Used to read from and write to any location in a file.
10 MemoryStream
Used for random access to streamed data stored in memory.
11 Path
Performs operations on path information.
12 StreamReader
Used for reading characters from a byte stream.
13 StreamWriter
Is used for writing characters to a stream.
14 StringReader
Is used for reading from a string buffer.
15 StringWriter
Is used for writing into a string buffer.
Updated on: 2020-06-20T16:22:55+05:30

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