Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace.

# How to: Write Text to Files with a StreamWriter in Visual Basic This example opens a <xref:System.IO.StreamWriter> object with the `My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter` method and uses it to ...

The most common issues encountered when working with text files include security exceptions, file encodings, or invalid paths. When parsing file paths, particularly relative paths, it is easy to ...