Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, get some hands-on practice, and explore this chapter's topics with more in-depth research.

Exercise 9.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between using the File class and the FileInfo class?
2. What is the difference between the ReadByte method and the Read method of a stream?
3. When would you use the StringReader, TextReader, and StreamReader classes?
4. What does the DeflateStream type do?
5. How many bytes per character does UTF-8 encoding use?
6. What is an object graph?
7. What is the best serialization format to choose for minimizing space requirements?
8. What is the best serialization format to choose for cross-platform compatibility?
9. Why is it bad to use a string value like "\Code\Chapter01" to represent a path, and what should you do instead?
10. Where can you find information...