Saving a *.txt file in VB 2005 - Help Please

[baronobeandip]

Can someone help me save some text to a text file in VB 2005? (VB 6's way dosn't work)

[joaquim]

in VB6 you can use the richtextbox for saving a txt file

in vb 2005 you can use the richtextbox too:

SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
RichTextBox1.SaveFile(SaveFileDialog1.FileName,RichTextBoxStreamType.PlainText)

has you can see i use more objects to these example:
button and savefiledialog(don't forget to write the extencion *.txt)

i hope these helps

PS: in vb6 is more or less the same....

[Hack]

Moved to VB.NET

[baronobeandip]

in VB6 you can use the richtextbox for saving a txt file

in vb 2005 you can use the richtextbox too:

SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
RichTextBox1.SaveFile(SaveFileDialog1.FileName,RichTextBoxStreamType.PlainText)

has you can see i use more objects to these example:
button and savefiledialog(don't forget to write the extencion *.txt)

i hope these helps

PS: in vb6 is more or less the same....

Thank you for your help, but is there a way to do it without the FD?

[jmcilhinney]

IO.File.WriteAllText("file path here", myString)

[baronobeandip]

IO.File.WriteAllText("file path here", myString)

When using this code how would I make the file name varie?

[jmcilhinney]

The first parameter is just a String. That String can come from anywhere. One place it might come from is the FileName property of an OpenFileDialog, thus allowing the user to select the destination, e.g.

Using ofd As New OpenFileDialog
    If ofd.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
        IO.File.WriteAllText(ofd.FileName, Me.TextBox1.Text)
    End If
End Using