Get File contents into String

CodeKeep C# Feed Maggio 7th, 2008

Description: This code is used to read contents of a given file.

Link: http://www.codekeep.net/snippets/adf5054b-78fb-449f-8423-b693cb6b34fb.aspx

    public static string GetFileContents(string FileName)
    {
        StreamReader sr = null;
        string FileContents = null;

        try
        {
            FileStream fs = new FileStream(FileName, FileMode.Open,
                                           FileAccess.Read);
            sr = new StreamReader(fs);
            FileContents = sr.ReadToEnd();
        }
        finally
        {
            if (sr != null)
                sr.Close();
        }

        return FileContents;
    }