Opening and creating a file

In this recipe, we will learn how to open a file from local file storage and how to save the user settings to local file storage.

Getting ready

1. Open Visual Studio for Phone 7 and create a Windows Phone Application. Name the application Ch2_Recipe2 and click on OK.

2. After you open the project, just press F5 and run it to make sure you don't get any error.

How to do it...

Let's build a simple page with a textbox to enter text to save and a text block to display the saved text in the local file storage.

1. Open the MainPage.xaml file and change the application title and page title to MY RECIPES and iFileStorage respectively:

   <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->
   <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">
     <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="MY RECIPES" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
     <TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="iFileStorage" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource...