Creating an empty file in C#

Question

What\'s the simplest/canonical way to create an empty file in C#/.NET?

The simplest way I could find so far is:

System.IO.File.WriteAllLines(filename         


        

Answer 1

Path.GetTempFileName() will create a uniquly named empty file and return the path to it.

If you want to control the path but get a random file name you can use GetRandomFileName to just return a file name string and use it with Create

For example:

string fileName=Path.GetRandomFileName();
File.Create("custom\\path\\" + fileName);