I have been using Visual Basic 6 for a while now and just recently moved to VB 2008. Well its taking some time to get used to but I'm not exactly sure how to open and input or output text files.

in 6 you wrote


just as an example. now I can't figure out app.path or inputs or outputs anymore in Visual Basic 2008.

farthest I got was
which doesn't seem to even be close to the same thing.

This post has been edited by VB-kun: 4 Apr, 2008 - 08:46 PM

In visual studio 2008 they moved all the objects and functions dealing with files into a namespace called "System.IO" this namespace provides objects for things like files, directories and file streams... which you would use to open, write and close files.

One object you will want to lookup is called "StreamReader". This object allows you to open a file and returns a stream. This stream object has methods like read and readLine. As you can imagine if there is a reader there is a writer. The object "StreamWriter" can be used for writing to files. Again it opens up files and creates a stream that you can use to get access to methods like write and writeLine.

Lookup these two objects and look for examples on both the DIC board and on the web and you will see plenty of code to show you how they are used.

If you have any more questions about them, you can ask us and I am sure we will be glad to help.

Enjoy!