What is the difference between File and FileInfo in C#?

Question

I\'ve been reading that the static methods of the File Class are better used to perform small and few tasks on a file like checking to see if it exists and that

Answer 1

The major difference between File class and FileInfo class is that

Both members of the File and FileInfo class are decorated with the [System.Security.SecurityCritical] and [System.Security.SecuritySafeCritical] attribute but File class has 'multiple security checks' as compared to FileInfo class (Read Here) and the check is performed each time when you call a static member of the File class.

When you create an instance of FileInfo, the check is performed only once.

• Apart from these, other minor differences are that File is a static type class whereas FileInfo is an instance type class.
• Therefore to access the members of FileInfo class you need to create an instance whereas in File class you can directly access its members without the need to create an instance.
• If you are performing multiple operations on the same file, it can be more efficient to use FileInfo instance methods instead of the corresponding static methods of the File class.
• However, File class provides more methods as compared to FileInfo class.

Note: Either the SecurityCriticalAttribute attribute or the SecuritySafeCriticalAttribute attribute must be applied to code for the code to perform security-critical operations.