The `Create()` method of the `File` class is used to create files in C#. The **`File.Create()` method** takes a fully specified path as a parameter and creates a file at the specified location; if any such file already exists at the given location, it is overwritten.

# Syntax

The syntax for the `File.Create()` method is:

# Code

The code snippet below illustrates the process of creating a file at a specified path with the `File.Create()` method.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

class FileCreation
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        string path = @"D:\Python_Files\my_file.py";

        // The line below will create a file my_file.py in
        // the Python_Files folder in D:\ drive
        using (FileStream fs = File.Create(path))
    }
}

>The `FileStream` class methods can be called, after the above code is executed​, with the `fs` object.

How to create a file in C#

File.Create() method in C# creates or overwrites a file at a specified path.