How to read last “n” lines of log file

Question

need a snippet of code which would read out last \"n lines\" of a log file. I came up with the following code from the net.I am kinda new to C sharp. Since the log file migh

Answer 1

Something that you can now do very easily in C# 4.0 (and with just a tiny bit of effort in earlier versions) is use memory mapped files for this type of operation. Its ideal for large files because you can map just a portion of the file, then access it as virtual memory.

There is a good example here.