Writing to Files in Visual Basic

This section explains how to perform tasks that involve writing to files.

In This Section

• How to: Write Text to Files in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to write to text files.

• How to: Append to Text Files in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to append text to a text file.

• How to: Write to Binary Files in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to write to a binary file.

• How to: Write Text to Files in the My Documents Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to create and write to a new text file in the My Documents directory.

• How to: Write Text to Files with a StreamWriter in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to write to a file with a System.IO.StreamWriter object.

Reference

• FileSystem
  Describes the My.Computer.FileSystem object and its methods and properties.

• OpenTextFileWriter
  Describes the OpenTextFileWriter method.

• WriteAllBytes
  Describes the WriteAllBytes method.

• WriteAllText
  Describes the WriteAllText method.

Related Sections

• Reading from Files in Visual Basic
  Explains how to perform tasks that involve reading from files.

• Creating, Deleting, and Moving Files and Directories in Visual Basic
  Explains how to perform tasks that involve creating, deleting, moving, and renaming files and directories.

• Storing Data to and Reading from the Clipboard (Visual Basic)
  Explains how to perform tasks that are associated with My.Computer.Clipboard, such as reading data from or writing data to the Clipboard.

• File Encodings (Visual Basic)
  Provides an overview of file encodings.