Using File Server Handle provided by Application Framework.
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The Control Environment (CONE), which forms part of the application framework for UI applications, provides a permanent handle to the File Server to help reduce the number of connected File Server Sessions needed.
You don’t need to open a file server session, since the control environment already has an open RFs, to access it, we need to invoke FsSession() on the iCoeEnv member of the View class.
RFs aFs = iCoeEnv->FsSession();
RFile file;
TInt iErr;
iErr = file.Open(aFs,aFilename,EFileRead) ;
if( iErr == KErrNone)
{
// Do Something...
}
file.Close();

