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string fullOrRelativePath = "testfile.txt"; string fileData; using (var reader = new StreamReader(fullOrRelativePath)) { fileData = reader.ReadToEnd(); } Note that this StreamReader constructor overload does some auto encoding detection, which may or may not conform to the ...

First, let's see three different ways of extracting data from a file. string fileText = File.ReadAllText(file); string[] fileLines = File.ReadAllLines(file); byte[] fileBytes = File.ReadAllBytes(file); On the first line, we read all the data in the file as a string. On the second line, we r...

Iterating over connected serial ports using System.IO.Ports; string[] ports = SerialPort.GetPortNames(); for (int i = 0; i < ports.Length; i++) { Console.WriteLine(ports[i]); } Instantiating a System.IO.SerialPort object using System.IO.Ports; SerialPort port = new SerialPort(); ...