How to properly read and write a file using Windows.Storage on Windows Phone 8

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Here’s a simple example:

public async Task WriteDataToFileAsync(string fileName, string content)
{
    byte[] data = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(content);

    var folder = ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;
    var file = await folder.CreateFileAsync(fileName, CreationCollisionOption.ReplaceExisting);

    using (var s = await file.OpenStreamForWriteAsync())
    {
        await s.WriteAsync(data, 0, data.Length);
    }
}

public async Task<string> ReadFileContentsAsync(string fileName)
{
    var folder = ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;

    try
    {
        var file = await folder.OpenStreamForReadAsync(fileName);

        using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(file))
        {
            return streamReader.ReadToEnd();
        }
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        return string.Empty;
    }
}

use them like this:

await this.WriteDataToFileAsync("afile.txt", "some text to save in a file");

var contents = await this.ReadFileContentsAsync("afile.txt");

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