openfiledailog

[Jay]

First I want to say thanks for the help on my previous post. I got the save
to work. But now I am working on the open and when I open a file it comes
up blank in my rich text box and then I go and look at the file it to is
blank. I tried to use the help file and no matter what I do it comes up
blank. This is what I have left, what am I missing here? BTW this code is
straight from the help file.

If openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then

openstreamwriter = New StreamWriter(openFileDialog1.FileName)

If Not (myStream Is Nothing) Then

' Insert code to read the stream here.

myStream.Close()

End If

End If

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Jay,

A StreamWriter writes data to a stream/file. If you want to read the file, use a StreamReader.

 

[Jay]

I was thinging that and I tried to code it with reader and it did not work.

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Jay,

If you have a file called MyFile.txt
and a RichTextBox called rtb you would typically do something like.

C# code but it shouldn't be hard to translate to VB

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("C:\\MyFile.txt");
rtb.Text = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();

Using a OpenFileDialog you could do something like.

if(openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(openFileDialog1.FileName);
rtb = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
}

 

[Nick Malik]

Hi Jay,

OK... you have the code to open the file and the code to close it... did you
comment out the code to read the file from your posting, or perhaps, you
don't have any code in your app that actually reads the file?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315828

--- Nick

 

[Jay]

Thank you, with your guys two posts I was able to get it working. : )