Get file size without using System.IO.FileInfo?

Question

Is it possible to get the size of a file in C# without using System.IO.FileInfo at all?

I know that you can get other things like Name and

Answer 1

You can try this:

[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
static extern bool GetFileSizeEx(IntPtr hFile, out long lpFileSize);

But that's not much of an improvement...

Here's the example code taken from pinvoke.net:

IntPtr handle = CreateFile(
    PathString, 
    GENERIC_READ, 
    FILE_SHARE_READ, 
    0, 
    OPEN_EXISTING, 
    FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY, 
    0); //PInvoked too

if (handle.ToInt32() == -1) 
{
    return; 
}

long fileSize;
bool result = GetFileSizeEx(handle, out fileSize);
if (!result) 
{
    return;
}