Easiest way to read from and write to files

Question

There are a lot of different ways to read and write files (text files, not binary) in C#.

I just need something that is easy and uses the least amount of code, because I am going to be working with files a lot in my project. I only need something for string since all I need is to read and write strings.

Answer 1

Use File.ReadAllText and File.WriteAllText.

MSDN example excerpt:

// Create a file to write to. string createText = "Hello and Welcome" + Environment.NewLine; File.WriteAllText(path, createText);  ...  // Open the file to read from. string readText = File.ReadAllText(path);