Gets a files' contents from a Url

  
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#region Usings
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

#endregion

namespace Utilities
{
    public static class FileManager
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a files' contents
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="FileName">File name</param>
        /// <returns>a string containing the file's contents</returns>
        public static string GetFileContents(Uri FileName)
        {
            WebClient Client = null;
            StreamReader Reader = null;
            try
            {
                Client = new WebClient();
                Reader = new StreamReader(Client.OpenRead(FileName));
                string Contents = Reader.ReadToEnd();
                Reader.Close();
                return Contents;
            }
            catch
            {
                return "";
            }
            finally
            {
                if (Reader != null)
                {
                    Reader.Close();
                    Reader.Dispose();
                }
                if (Client != null)
                {
                    Client.Dispose();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

1.	Demonstrates seeking to a position in a file from the end
2.	Demonstrates opening/creating a file for writing and truncating its length to 0 bytes.
3.	Writes the same string to a file and to the screen using a common method
4.	Display a text file
5.	Write to a file
6.	Copy a file
7.	Demonstrate random access
8.	Hex value Dump
9.	Read all the content from a file as byte array
10.	Read all the content from a file as string in default encoding
11.	Gets a files' contents
12.	Gets a files' contents with MemoryStream
13.	Gets a files' contents from a Url and save to an OutputStream
14.	Gets a file's contents (Used primarily for text documents on an FTP)
15.	Gets a files' contents from an Url with NetworkCredential
16.	Read/Write File Transacted
17.	Replace String In File
18.	Append To File
19.	Write To File
20.	Writes out a string to a file.

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