/en/tags/cross-platform/Recent content in Cross Platform on DVLUPHugoen-USThu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000/en/blog/2018.04.19-migrating-from-pclstorage-to-net-standard-2-0/Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000/en/blog/2018.04.19-migrating-from-pclstorage-to-net-standard-2-0/<p>If you&rsquo;re a Xamarin Forms developer, you&rsquo;ve likely used <a href="https://github.com/dsplaisted/PCLStorage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PCLStorage</a> (or other Dependency Service) to interact with the target platform&rsquo;s file system in the portable class library&rsquo;s code. However, since November 2017, Xamarin.Forms now uses a .NET Standard 2.0 class library and PCLStorage is no longer supported.</p> <h2 id="systemiofile">System.IO.File</h2> <p>This isn&rsquo;t a problem because in .NET Core 2.0 you now have access to System.IO.File&rsquo;s GetFolderPath and SpecialFolder methods (see <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file?view=netcore-2.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">System.IO.File in .NET Core 2.0 docs</a> ).</p>