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Reading any type of file in C#

My program needs to read any type of file from a given directory path and it has to write that information into a byte array.

 string combine = Path.Combine(precombine, filename);
 string content = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(combine);

This way I can read a text file however I have to read all kind of files such as music or image and write them into a byte array.

Solution

  • Use the File.ReadAllBytes method 

    byte[] fileContent = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(combine);