This sample illustrates access the SD card and writing to a file using standard System.IO calls.

Code

using System;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.SPOT;
using Microsoft.SPOT.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace SDCardIO
{
    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            // some debug output for funsies 
            OutputSDInfo ();

            var volume = new VolumeInfo("SD");

            // check to see if there's an SD card inserted
            if (volume != null)
            {
                // "SD" is the volume name,
                var path = Path.Combine("SD","test.txt");

                // write some text to a file
                File.WriteAllBytes (path, Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes ("Foooooooo"));

                // Must call flush to write immediately. Otherwise, there's no guarantee 
                // as to when the file is written. 
                volume.FlushAll();
            } 
            else
            {
                Debug.Print ("There doesn't appear to be an SD card inserted");
            }
        }

        public static void OutputSDInfo()
        {
            var vInfo = new VolumeInfo ("SD");

            if (vInfo != null)
            {
                Debug.Print ("Is Formatted: " + vInfo.IsFormatted.ToString ());
                Debug.Print ("Total Free Space: " + vInfo.TotalFreeSpace.ToString ());
                Debug.Print ("Total Size: " + vInfo.TotalSize.ToString ());
                Debug.Print ("File System: " + vInfo.FileSystem);
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Print ("There doesn't appear to be an SD card in the device.");
            }
        }

        public static bool SDExists()
        {
            return (new VolumeInfo ("SD") != null);
        }
    }
}

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Full source code for all of the samples can be found in the Netduino Samples repository on Github.

 


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