Roger Villela - Understanding System.IO for .NET Core 3: Implementing Internal and Commercial Tools

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Working with software engineering is a challenge and a pleasure.

This book shows the reader how to take full advantage of the .NET APIs in System.IO in order to achieve fundamental I/O operations and produce better quality software.

The book starts with the basics of creating a .NET Core custom library for System.IO. You will learn the purpose and benefits of a custom cross-platform .NET Core library along with the implementation architecture of the custom library components. Moving forward, you will learn how to use the .NET APIs of System.IO for getting information about resources. Here, you will go through drives, directories, files, and much more in the .NET API. Manipulation of resources and environment is discussed, and you will learn how to build custom I/O actions for resource manipulation followed by its properties and security. Next, you will learn special .NET APIs operations with System.IO via demonstrations of working with a collection of resources, directories, files, and system information. Towards the end, you will go through the managed and unmanaged streams in the .NET API such as the memory stream, file stream, and much more.

After reading the book, you will be able to work with different features of System.IO in .NET Core and implement its internal and commercial tools to be used for different scenarios of I/O tasks.

The Common Language Runtime (CLR), foundational libraries, and specialized libraries are organized in various components and technologies that use resources and features of System.IO .NET data types, and the coordination presents many challenges to the managed execution environment. The C# programming language is used to show important aspects of the behaviors of the resources and features of System.IO libraries, and it should be considered as part of your day-by-day too, as engineering practices.

First, I would like to thank the people on the Apress team who worked with me on this book: Smriti Srivastava (Acquisitions Editor), Shrikant Vishwakarma (Coordinating Editor), Matthew Moodie (Development Editor), Welmoed Spahr (Managing Director), and Carsten Thomsen (Technical Reviewer). It was a pleasure and an honor work with such a highly professional team.

Thanks to my parents and a special thanks to my dad, Gilberto, and my two brothers, Eder and Marlos, and my sister-in-law Janana, and my nephew Gabriel, and my nieces Lvia and Rafaela.

Special thanks to my cousin Ariadne Villela.

I would also like to thank my professional colleagues and friends who worked with me through these years.