Using just File.Create will leave the file open, which probably isn't what you want.
You could use:
- 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...