Sending A File As A Method Argument?

Is this sort of thing possible:

public static void DoThis(file aFile){
    //Blah blah blah
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It depends what you need to do with it :)

Options include:

• path (string)
• contents (string or byte[])
• some complex object model (od your own choosing) of the contents
• FileInfo
• FileStream (or just Stream)
• some kind of reader/writer; TextReader, XmlWriter etc

Absolutely. If you have the file reference in the calling method, then you can definitely do that.

What you can pass is the handle to the file i.e. reference to the file object or its contant in Binary or text format. The file object represents the handler to file and not the actual file.

Yep, you can certainly do that. just remember to check for nulls....

public static void DoThis(file aFile)
{
    if ( aFile == null ) { // report error or whatever }
    //Blah blah blah
}