help with filecheck program

[bhs00]

This is my question:
Write a program with a text box, and button, and list box. The user is to place a pathname in the text box and click the button. The program should first check that the file exists, displaying a message box if it doesn’t. If it does, the program should read the file as a text, with one string per line, and place each string as a new item in the list box.

Here is the code I have so far,when I run it i think it gives the error message correctly, but it gives me an error and then doesn't put the file names into the list. could someone help me out with this?? What am I doing wrong?:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim sFileToCheck As String = TextBox.Text
        Dim sFileList() As String
 
        If File.Exists(sFileToCheck) Then
            sFileList = Directory.GetFiles(TextBox.Text)
            ListBox1.Items.AddRange(sFileList)
        Else
            MessageBox.Show("The file does not exist")
        End If
 
    End Sub
End Class

[jmcilhinney]

You are mixing up files and folders. You are NOT checking a file. You are checking a folder, i.e. a directory. File.Exists is going to return False every time if you pass it the name of a folder. You should be using Directory.Exists to check whether the specified directory exists and, if it does, get a list of the files it contains. That means that your sFileToCheck variable is incorrectly named and should be called sFolderToCheck.

[stanav]

Change this line

sFileList = Directory.GetFiles(TextBox.Text)

To this

sFileList = File.ReadAllLine(TextBox.Text)

[rbxslvr]

If I were you, (depending on this program's purpose) I would probably add a open file dialog box, and let the filepath = OpenFileDialog1.FileName, so the user can select their file instead of typing it (I'm using the folder browser dialog box for a similar purpose in my current project)