title: Using a csv file in Visual Studio C#
body: <p>I have some data saved in .csv format. Basically I want to access this data within my Visual Studio project (using C#).</p>
  
  <p>I've done some digging around and found things like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/415732/Reading-and-Writing-CSV-Files-in-Csharp" rel="nofollow">http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/415732/Reading-and-Writing-CSV-Files-in-Csharp</a></p>
  
  <p>But it just seems a little too complicated. Is there a **built-in method to read the csv file format within Visual Studio? If not I will start using the method shown there.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: Sorry perhaps I should be a little clearer. The csv file is huge (35,000 rows), I guess I should be asking how best to handle this data. Should I write it as a table, or read from the file each time I want to access the data?</p>
  
  <p>If it sounds like I'm confusing terminology I'm sorry. I'm not all that familiar with C# and visual studio.</p>