You gotta love the little things in .NET Framework 2.0: File.ReadAllLines()

I was recently reviewing some samples and I ran across one that made me really appreciate the work we did in BCL in .NET Framework 2.0... it maybe a very trivial thing, but it really improves the code.

The code sample in question looked something like:

      if (autoCompleteWordList == null)

      {

        List<String> words = new List<string>();

        FileStream file = new

          FileStream(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/words.txt"), FileMode.Open,

          FileAccess.Read);

        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(file);

        String word;

        while ((word = reader.ReadLine()) != null)

        {

          words.Add(word);

        }

        file.Close();

        autoCompleteWordList = words.ToArray();

        Array.Sort(autoCompleteWordList, new CaseInsensitiveComparer());

      }

I was able to cut the lines of code by more than 1/2 by using the File.ReadAllLines() method added in .NET Framework 2.0

      if (autoCompleteWordList == null)

      {

          string[] temp = File.ReadAllLines(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/words.txt"));

          Array.Sort(temp, new CaseInsensitiveComparer());

          autoCompleteWordList = temp;

      }

What do you think? What other timesaving gems have you found in .NET Framework 2.0?