[RESOLVED] Attempting to write to and read from a file on a hard drive

[JPSR]

I am new to VB2022 and I made 4 attempts to write a string to a file on my hard drive. When I click on "Start" everything builds and runs without errors yet none of the files show up in the target folder - "C:\Users\nicho\documents".
What am I missing?
The code follows:

Imports System.IO
Public Class form1
Sub TestWrite1()
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("C:\Users\nicho\Documents\test1.txt", "This is new text to be added.", True)

End Sub
Sub Testwrite2()
Dim TextFile As New System.IO.StreamWriter("C:\Users\nicho\Documents\test2.txt")
TextFile.WriteLine("This is Line 1")
TextFile.WriteLine("This is Line 2")
TextFile.Close()

End Sub
Sub Testwrite3()

Dim fileName As String
fileName = "C:\Users\nicho\Documents\test3.txt"
Dim file As System.IO.FileStream
file = System.IO.File.Create(fileName)
file.Close()

FileOpen(1, fileName, OpenMode.Output) ' The file is not visible
Print(1, "Hello World!")
FileClose(1)
Shell("explorer " & fileName)
'''''''''''''''''''''''
file.Close()
'''''''''''''''''''''''
Shell("C:\Users\nicho\Documents\test3.txt", vbNormalFocus)
End Sub
Sub TestWrite4()
Dim myFilename As String = "C:\Users\nicho\Documents\test4.txt"
Dim Fich As New BinaryWriter(File.Open(myFilename, FileMode.OpenOrCreate))
Fich.Write("Hello there!")
Fich.Write("This is a Binary file.")
Fich.Close()
End Sub
End Class

[OptionBase1]

By all appearances, you have no code present that actually makes a call to execute any of those Subroutines you have set up.

Your program is like a cookbook sitting on the shelf. The food doesn't make itself.

You could place a button on the form, and in the Button's Click event you could just have a single line of code like:

TestWrite1

Which would initiate the code in that TestWrite1 routine.

Good luck.

[TysonLPrice]

OptionBase1 is correct. Just for grins I tested all four and they work.

Private Sub form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
      TestWrite1()
      Testwrite2()
      Testwrite3()
      TestWrite4()
End Sub

[jmcilhinney]

For the record, you should be using an option that uses a StreamReader/StreamWriter either directly or indirectly, e.g. File.ReadAllText and File.WriteAllLines use those types internally. Don't mess with that VB6 style of I/O and you'd only use a BinaryWriter if you were mixing text with other data types.