opening and reading from a txt file help

bearing in mind i am a comple novice when it comes to programming (something i do apologise for as its bound to become extrmely annoying very quickly)

how can i direct a push button to open and read a text file,
and subsequently send each line of it to another program with a one second interval between each line send.

i know of the microsfot.visuabasic.appactivate commands but i'm not sure how this would work with the above?

and is it possible to get the program to pause and open a resume dialog box upon after sending a particular word. i.e it's sending the data recognises the word in question, send its and then brings up a resume button, you click the button and it carries on sending the infomation?

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I will address how to read a Text file. :)

VB Code:

Dim sr As System.IO.StreamReader = System.IO.File.OpenText(Application.StartupPath + "\text.txt")
        Dim strFile As String = sr.ReadToEnd
        sr.Close()
        MsgBox(strFile)

Cheers,
McoreD

If you are trying to send data between applications, I would look into .NET Remoting. But to be honest, if reading from a text file is giving you a hard time, Remoting is probably going to be way over your head.

and for the "every one secound part" put a timer control on the form and set the interval to 1000.

but Sean is right reading/writing files is one of the easyer things to do in programing, and although i have no experience in sending data between apps i imagin it is fairly complicated.