Writing to Text and XML Streams

Learn about writing to text streams and XML streams with examples of writing call signs to text and XML files.

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Writing to text streams

Let’s type some code to write text to a stream:

Step 1: Use your preferred code editor to add a new Console App or console project named WorkingWithStreams to the Chapter09 solution or workspace.

  • In Visual Studio, set the startup project for the solution to the current selection.

  • In Visual Studio Code, select WorkingWithStreams as the active OmniSharp project.

Step 2: In the project file, add an element to statically and globally import the System.Console class.

Step 3: Add a new class file named Program.Helpers.cs.

Step 4: In Program.Helpers.cs, add a partial Program class with a SectionTitle method, as shown in the following code:

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