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+====== Read a file ======
+If you need to read or write to files and wish to keep the entire file in memory, you can use the static methods of the [[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file|System.IO.File]] class:
+(the following static methods are only a small fraction of the functionality this class offers - please read the full documentation of this class!)
+  * ReadAllBytes() will return you a byte array of the specified file
+  * ReadAllLines() will return a string array of all lines of the specified file
+  * ReadAllText() will return a string with the content of the file
+  * WriteAllBytes() will write the specified byte array to the file
+  * WriteAllLines() will write the string array to the file
+  * WriteAllText() will write the string to the file
+Please pay attention to the encoding with all methods that deal with strings. All these methods have a version that lets you specify the enconding, and one without. You should prefer to specify it!
+A sample:
+<code>using System.Text
+using System.IO
+local cString as string
+local aBytes as byte[]
+local cBuffer as string
+cString := "Hello world!"
+File.WriteAllText( cFileName, cString )
+aBytes := File.ReadAllBytes( cFileName )
+cBuffer := System.Text.Encoding.Default:GetString( aBytes )
+System.Console.WriteLine( "Bytes, without:" + cBuffer + ", file length: " + FileInfo{ cFileName }:Length:ToString() )
+File.WriteAllText( cFileName, cString, Encoding.ASCII )
+aBytes := File.ReadAllBytes( cFileName )
+cBuffer := System.Text.Encoding.ASCII:GetString( aBytes )
+System.Console.WriteLine( "Bytes, ASCII:" + cBuffer + ", file length: " + FileInfo{ cFileName }:Length:ToString() )
+File.WriteAllText( cFileName, cString, Encoding.Default )
+aBytes := File.ReadAllBytes( cFileName )
+cBuffer := System.Text.Encoding.Default:GetString( aBytes )
+System.Console.WriteLine( "Bytes, Default:" + cBuffer + ", file length: " + FileInfo{ cFileName }:Length:ToString() )
+File.WriteAllText( cFileName, cString, Encoding.Unicode )
+aBytes := File.ReadAllBytes( cFileName )
+cBuffer := System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString( aBytes )
+System.Console.WriteLine( "Bytes, Default:" + cBuffer + ", file length: " + FileInfo{ cFileName }:Length:ToString() )
+File.WriteAllText( cFileName, cString, Encoding.UTF32 )
+aBytes := File.ReadAllBytes( cFileName )
+cBuffer	:= System.Text.Encoding.UTF32.GetString( aBytes )
+System.Console.WriteLine( "Bytes, Default:" + cBuffer + ", file length: " + FileInfo{ cFileName }:Length:ToString() )
+cBuffer := System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString( aBytes )
+System.Console.WriteLine( "Bytes, Default:" + cBuffer + ", file length: " + FileInfo{ cFileName }:Length:ToString() )</code>
+This piece of code produces the following output:\\
+{{:images:read_file.png|}}