Writing to Files in Visual Basic

This section lists tasks involving 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
  Lists tasks involving reading from files.

• Creating, Deleting, and Moving Files and Directories in Visual Basic
  Lists tasks involving creating, deleting, moving, and renaming files and directories.

• File, Directory, and Drive Properties in Visual Basic
  Lists tasks involving determining file, directory, and drive properties.

• How to: Write to the Clipboard in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to write data to the Clipboard.

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