File Handling: Overview

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Visual C++ supplies a number of ways to work with files, including:

• Run-time library functions for file handling

• MFC classes: and its derived classes

MFC's class CFile encapsulates access to files in a C++ class. The MFC library also supplies derived classes like and for working with text files, in-memory files, OLE streams, and other file-like objects, such as Windows sockets.

What do you want to know more about?

• Creating a CFile object associated with a file

• Opening a file with CFile

• Reading from or writing to a file with CFile

• Closing a file with CFile

• Accessing file status information