Creating an empty file in C#

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Using just File.Create will leave the file open, which probably isn’t what you want.

You could use:

// Results in compiler warning "warning CS0642: Possible mistaken empty statement"
using (File.Create(filename)) ;

That looks slightly odd, mind you. You could use braces instead:

using (File.Create(filename)) {}

Or just call Dispose directly:

File.Create(filename).Dispose();

Either way, if you’re going to use this in more than one place you should probably consider wrapping it in a helper method, e.g.

public static void CreateEmptyFile(string filename)
{
    File.Create(filename).Dispose();
}

Note that calling Dispose directly instead of using a using statement doesn’t really make much difference here as far as I can tell – the only way it could make a difference is if the thread were aborted between the call to File.Create and the call to Dispose. If that race condition exists, I suspect it would also exist in the using version, if the thread were aborted at the very end of the File.Create method, just before the value was returned…

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