text file writing

[Grunt]

how come this is not working?

Dim bookname As String = "\books.txt"
        Dim objFileStream As New FileStream(Application.StartupPath & bookname, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)
        Dim Addbook As New StreamWriter(objFileStream)
        txtName.Text = Names
        txtAddress.Text = Address
        Addbook.WriteLine(Names & Address)
        Addbook.Close()

it creates the file, but does not write anything

[Grunt]

nevermind. Got it.

   Dim bookname As String = "\books.txt"
        Dim objFileStream As New FileStream(Application.StartupPath & bookname, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)
        Dim Addbook As New StreamWriter(objFileStream)
        Addbook.Write(txtName.Text)
        Addbook.Close()

[Qualm]

txtName.Text = Names
txtAddress.Text = Address

Do you mean:

Names = txtName.Text
Address = txtAddress.Text

Or do you declare Names and Address somewhere else?

When I did this it worked perfectly:

Addbook.WriteLine(txtName.Text & txtAddress.Text)

By the way you probably want to put a & " " & or a & VBCrLf in there ...

[Grunt]

curious as to what this means?

"VBCrLf"

[Qualm]

That's a constant, it adds a Carriage Return/Line Feed - starts a new line, in other words.