Writing to a file in Windows Phone

Question

I am having trouble creating an IO stream.

I found the example below but for some odd reason the GetResourceStream is not an available in the Application class. Am I missing a reference to some API?

var resource = Application.GetResourceStream(new Uri(@"/YOURASSEMBLYNAME;component/Stations.txt", UriKind.Relative));

StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(resource.Stream);
string x = streamReader.ReadToEnd();

Answer 1

If you need to read a String from your file (as I see in your example), you can use:

StorageFile textFile = await StorageFile.GetFileFromApplicationUriAsync(new Uri("ms-appx:///YOUR FILE PATH"));
String text = await FileIO.ReadTextAsync(textFile );

You can use the methods inside the FileIO class to write to the file as well, both from a text and from a binary buffer.

If you really want to use a buffer stream, you can get it with:

IRandomAccessStream accessStream = await textFile.OpenAsync(FileAccessMode.ReadWrite);