IsolatedStorageFile Class

This object corresponds to a specific isolated storage scope, where files represented by IsolatedStorageFileStream objects exist. Applications can use isolated storage to save data in their own isolated portion of the file system, without having to specify a particular path within the file system. Since isolated stores are scoped to particular assemblies, most other managed code will not be able to access your code's data (highly trusted managed code and administration tools can access stores from other assemblies). Unmanaged code can access any isolated stores.

For more information, see Isolated Storage.

Important
Isolated storage is not available for Windows Store apps. Instead, use the application data classes in the Windows.Storage namespaces included in the Windows Runtime API to store local data and files. For more information, see Application data in the Windows Dev Center.

The following code example illustrates how to create files and directories in an isolated store. First, a store that is isolated by user, domain, and assembly is retrieved and placed in the isoStore variable. The CreateDirectory method is then called to create directories, and two instances of the IsolatedStorageFileStream class create files in these directories.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.IsolatedStorage;

public class CreatingFilesDirectories
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        using (IsolatedStorageFile isoStore = IsolatedStorageFile.GetStore(IsolatedStorageScope.User | IsolatedStorageScope.Domain | IsolatedStorageScope.Assembly, null, null))
        {
            isoStore.CreateDirectory("TopLevelDirectory");
            isoStore.CreateDirectory("TopLevelDirectory/SecondLevel");
            isoStore.CreateDirectory("AnotherTopLevelDirectory/InsideDirectory");
            Console.WriteLine("Created directories.");

            isoStore.CreateFile("InTheRoot.txt");
            Console.WriteLine("Created a new file in the root.");

            isoStore.CreateFile("AnotherTopLevelDirectory/InsideDirectory/HereIAm.txt");
            Console.WriteLine("Created a new file in the InsideDirectory.");
        }
    }
}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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