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.

Replace "[directory]" with the target directory, and replace "[filename]" with the desired name of the text file. Type "End Sub" without quotation marks. Close the Visual Basic window.

The Visual Basic "Button" class lets you create a control on your VB projects that perform an action such as auto-save. VB also includes file classes that help you create functions to save files.