Ch2, Lesson1 - Navigating the File System.

What are File System Classes?

• System.IO - Set of classes to manipulate files, directories & drives.
• file sys classes - informational & utility.
• Informational - derive from FileSystemInfo base class. -> FileInfo, DirectoryInfo.
• DriveInfo - not derived from FileSystemInfo.
• Utility classes - provide static mthds to perform ops - incl File, Directory & Path classes.
• Path - provides static mthds for manipulating a file system path.
• FileSystemWatcher - provides mthds for monitoring file system directories for changes.
• FileSystemWatcher - poss. to get more events generated than can be handled. FileSystemWatcher then throws Error event, which can be captured (by registering for it + turning events on).

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