how to use temporary files in C#

how to use temporary files in C#

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1. A Small C# File Creator Class

Introducing a small class that helps you in creating a temporary file with string/binary data and clean-up the file automatically

2. A Small C# File Cloner Class

Introducing a small class that helps you in creating automatic copies of files and clean them up automatically, too

3. Cryptor - Encrypt Files With Rijndael 256 bit

A simple utility for encrypting files using 256 bit Rijndael (AES). Also, adds menu items to Windows Explorer's file context menu for easy access.

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4. How to use Temporary Files in C#

What exactly is a temporary file? Put simply, a temporary file is a file used by an application for storing temporary data. There is no fixed rule which specifies what this data should be, but generally temporary files (or temp files) are used for storing ‘work data‘. For example Microsoft Office uses temp files to store backups of documents being created or edited. Other applications might use temp files to store large amounts of data which would otherwise occupy too much memory. Basically, it is up to the developer to decide what should be kept within his/her application’s temp files.

5. A simple technique to take care of temporary files (Tip: Windows won't do it for you)

This is a nice and simple approach that I came up with in order to delete temporary files even long after I forgot about them.

6. Security Tips for Temporary File Usage in Applications

Educate yourself on security best practices for temporary file usage in software applications.

7. Generate Excel files without using Microsoft Excel

A C# class to create Excel files without requiring Microsoft Excel.

8. File Resource Management Library (.NET)

A .NET implementation of a file resource management, with complete support for VS_VERSIONINFO version resources.

9. CPathSplit

CString based path splitter.

10. A class to make it easy to work with file names

Working with filenames

11. Code Lean and Mean File DIFF (FIFF) Application

This article presents an application that calculates and displays the changes between two text files.

12. FastTreeView

TreeView control in which nodes dynamically load themselves while expanding

13. INI Files

Parse, manage, edit and write INI files while preserving their format. And don't get too exhausted.

14. C# File Browser

A file browser written in C#, very much like Windows Explorer.