Osaxely.ExtendedStorage 0.3.0

Extended Storage Library

The Extended Storage library allows developers of UWP apps to access every file of the system. Extended Storage allows the following features:

• Full access to the filesystem (Including hidden and operating system files) on any UWP device.
• Writing and reading files.
• Opening files in stream for further manipulations.
• Archive system for Creation/Extraction.
• Access to the external storage drives.
• It is as easy to use as Windows.Storage API.

This powerful library was developed by myself and tunip3.

Additional details

In order to use that library, your app must declare the following capabilities:

• runFullTrust
• broadFileSystemAccess

Samples

These few samples show some simple features of that powerful library. A bunch of other features can be done such as Copying/Moving/Deleting or opening as a stream.

Getting a file and a folder

using ExtendedStorage;
using ExtendedStorage.Utils;
...
// Get a folder from path and a file from folder
EStorageFolder folder = EStorageFolder.GetFromPath(FOLDER_PATH); // Returns null if the folder was not found.
EStorageFile textFile = folder.GetFile("sample.txt"); // Get file from that folder, also returns null if the file was not found.

// Get a folder from another folder
EStorageFolder folder = EStorageFolder.GetFromPath(FOLDER_PATH);
EStorageFolder anotherFolder = folder.GetFolder("Other");

// Getting a file
EStorageFile file = EStorageFile.GetFromPath(FILE_PATH);

Reading a text file

That example assumes that we have a text file called sample.txt which contains Hello world.

using ExtendedStorage;
using ExtendedStorage.Utils;
...
EStorageFolder folder = EStorageFolder.GetFromPath(FOLDER_PATH); // Returns null if the folder was not found.
EStorageFile textFile = folder.GetFile("sample.txt"); // Get file from that folder, also returns null if the file was not found.

string content = textFile.ReadText(); // Read all the text.
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine($"File content: {content}");

Output: File content: Hello world

Writing to a text file

using ExtendedStorage;
using ExtendedStorage.Utils;
...
EStorageFolder folder = EStorageFolder.GetFromPath(FOLDER_PATH); // Returns null if the folder was not found.
EStorageFile textFile = folder.GetFile("sample.txt"); // Get file from that folder, also returns null if the file was not found.

textFile.WriteText("Hello world"); // Read all the text.