StreamReader question - just curious

[stricknyn]

Hello,

Just curious, what's the difference between:

Dim sr As StreamReader = File.OpenText(SourceFileLocation)

and

Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader(SourceFileLocation)

Both do the same thing of course and both works, but I'm just curious which method I should be using.

Thanks,

Strick

[techgnome]

top one is clearly a text file.
The second one could be a binary file.
Which one to use depends on the file. If it's a text file, then use the openText.... if it's binary data, then use the streamReader....

-tg