The File type exposes the following members.
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Methods
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| AppendAllText(String, String) | 
            Opens a file, appends the specified string to the file, and then closes the file. If the file does not exist, this method creates a file, writes the specified string to the file, then closes the file.
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| AppendAllText(String, String, Boolean) | 
            Opens a file, appends the specified string to the file, and then closes the file. If the file does not exist, this method creates a file, writes the specified string to the file, then closes the file.
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| AppendAllText(String, String, Encoding) | 
            Opens a file, appends the specified string to the file, and then closes the file. If the file does not exist, this method creates a file, writes the specified string to the file, then closes the file.
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| AppendAllText(String, String, Encoding, Boolean) | 
            Opens a file, appends the specified string to the file, and then closes the file. If the file does not exist, this method creates a file, writes the specified string to the file, then closes the file.
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| Copy(String, String) | 
            Copies an existing file to a new file.
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| Copy(String, String, Boolean) | 
            Copies an existing file to a new file. Overwriting a file of the same name is allowed.
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| Create | 
            Creates or overwrites a file in the specified path.
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| CreateText | 
            Creates or opens a file for writing UTF-8 encoded text.
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| Delete | 
            Deletes the specified file. An exception is not thrown if the specified file does not exist.
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| Exists | 
            Determines whether the specified file exists.
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| ExistsRelative | 
            Determines whether the specified file exists.
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| GetAccessControl | 
            Gets a FileSecurity object that encapsulates the access control list (ACL) entries for a specified directory.
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| GetActualUrl | Obsolete.  
            Returns actual URL of given absolute path.
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| GetFileObject | 
            Gets the file provider object for given path
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| GetFileUrl | 
            Returns URL to file. If can be accessed directly then direct URL is generated else URL with GetFile page is generated.
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| GetLastWriteTime | 
            Returns the date and time the specified file or directory was last written to.
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| Move | 
            Moves a specified file to a new location, providing the option to specify a new file name.
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| Open | 
            Opens a FileStream  on the specified path, with the specified mode and access.
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| OpenRead | 
            Opens an existing file for reading.
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| OpenText | 
            Opens an existing UTF-8 encoded text file for reading.
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| ReadAllBytes | 
            Opens a binary file, reads the contents of the file into a byte array, and then closes the file.
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| ReadAllText(String) | 
            Opens a text file, reads all lines of the file, and then closes the file.
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| ReadAllText(String, Encoding) | 
            Opens a text file, reads all lines of the file, and then closes the file.
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| SetAttributes | 
            Sets the specified FileAttributes of the file on the specified path.
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| SetLastWriteTime | 
            Sets the date and time that the specified file was last written to.
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| SetLastWriteTimeUtc | 
            Sets the date and time, in coordinated universal time (UTC), that the specified file was last written to.
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| WriteAllBytes | 
            Creates a new file, writes the specified byte array to the file, and then closes the file. If the target file already exists, it is overwritten.
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| WriteAllText(String, String) | 
            Creates a new file, write the contents to the file, and then closes the file. If the target file already exists, it is overwritten.
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| WriteAllText(String, String, Encoding) | 
            Creates a new file, write the contents to the file, and then closes the file. If the target file already exists, it is overwritten.
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