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Dev C# Asynchronous file access

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• Asynchronous file access (C#)

Write text

Simple example

public async Task SimpleWriteAsync()
{
    string filePath = "simple.txt";
    string text = $"Hello World";

    await File.WriteAllTextAsync(filePath, text);
}

Finite control example

public async Task ProcessWriteAsync()
{
    string filePath = "temp.txt";
    string text = $"Hello World{Environment.NewLine}";

    await WriteTextAsync(filePath, text);
}

async Task WriteTextAsync(string filePath, string text)
{
    byte[] encodedText = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(text);

    using var sourceStream =
        new FileStream(
            filePath,
            FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None,
            bufferSize: 4096, useAsync: true);

    await sourceStream.WriteAsync(encodedText, 0, encodedText.Length);
}

Read text

Simple example

public async Task SimpleReadAsync()
{
    string filePath = "simple.txt";
    string text = await File.ReadAllTextAsync(filePath);

    Console.WriteLine(text);
}

Finite control example

public async Task ProcessReadAsync()
{
    try
    {
        string filePath = "temp.txt";
        if (File.Exists(filePath) != false)
        {
            string text = await ReadTextAsync(filePath);
            Console.WriteLine(text);
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"file not found: {filePath}");
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
    }
}

async Task<string> ReadTextAsync(string filePath)
{
    using var sourceStream =
        new FileStream(
            filePath,
            FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read,
            bufferSize: 4096, useAsync: true);

    var sb = new StringBuilder();

    byte[] buffer = new byte[0x1000];
    int numRead;
    while ((numRead = await sourceStream.ReadAsync(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) != 0)
    {
        string text = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(buffer, 0, numRead);
        sb.Append(text);
    }

    return sb.ToString();
}

Parallel asynchronous I/O

Simple example

public async Task SimpleParallelWriteAsync()
{
    string folder = Directory.CreateDirectory("tempfolder").Name;
    IList<Task> writeTaskList = new List<Task>();

    for (int index = 11; index <= 20; ++ index)
    {
        string fileName = $"file-{index:00}.txt";
        string filePath = $"{folder}/{fileName}";
        string text = $"In file {index}{Environment.NewLine}";

        writeTaskList.Add(File.WriteAllTextAsync(filePath, text));
    }

    await Task.WhenAll(writeTaskList);
}

Finite control example

public async Task ProcessMultipleWritesAsync()
{
    IList<FileStream> sourceStreams = new List<FileStream>();

    try
    {
        string folder = Directory.CreateDirectory("tempfolder").Name;
        IList<Task> writeTaskList = new List<Task>();

        for (int index = 1; index <= 10; ++ index)
        {
            string fileName = $"file-{index:00}.txt";
            string filePath = $"{folder}/{fileName}";

            string text = $"In file {index}{Environment.NewLine}";
            byte[] encodedText = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(text);

            var sourceStream =
                new FileStream(
                    filePath,
                    FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None,
                    bufferSize: 4096, useAsync: true);

            Task writeTask = sourceStream.WriteAsync(encodedText, 0, encodedText.Length);
            sourceStreams.Add(sourceStream);

            writeTaskList.Add(writeTask);
        }

        await Task.WhenAll(writeTaskList);
    }
    finally
    {
        foreach (FileStream sourceStream in sourceStreams)
        {
            sourceStream.Close();
        }
    }
}