File Handling in VB.NET

[Jody]

How do you open a sequential file in vb.net using the OpenFileDialog and read from it? Also, how do you create a file, write to it, and save it?

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Jody:

Dim lsFileContent as String

'Opens the file name referred to as sFileName.
Dim lfsTemp = New FileStream(sFileName, IO.FileMode.Open)

'Creates a Binary reader object.
Dim lbrTemp = New BinaryReader(lfsTemp)

'Reads all the bytes.
Dim lbTemp = lbrTemp.ReadBytes(lbrTemp.BaseStream.Length)

' Since I am reading bytes, they could also be multi-byte and
' this method uses the encoding to convert the bytes read to a
string
lsFileContent = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(lbTemp)

lfsTemp.Close
lbrTemp.Close

Hope this helps.

Venki