VS 2010 Reading And Writing Files?
Dec 27, 2010
My app has a series of parameters that is to be stored in an external files. Eventhough the "parameter" file could be edited by the end user, I really don't care that much about what the user does to them.
So my two questions are, what is the most effeicent means of reading and writing a file and in what format should the file be in? When I say effeicent I mean, what utilizes the least amount of memory during the process, is fast, and disposable.
Example: XML, Text, something else. StreamReader / StreamWriter or what ever.
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Sep 13, 2010
I am trying to search for snippet for reading and writing ini files in visual basic .net.
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Oct 12, 2011
I have seen a few different ways of Reading/Writing Text files. What i am trying to achieve is a simple debug file in the most efficient way possible. Currently I have....
If System.IO.File.Exists(debugpath) = True Then
Dim Debugwriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(debugpath, True)
Debugwriter.WriteLine(debugwrite)
Debugwriter.Close()
[code]....
1. Do I have to close and reopen the file each time I want to write to it.
2. In vbscript I would simply open the the file at the start of the script and close at the end is the same possible here.
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Mar 12, 2011
I'm creating a simple forms application where users can enter their details and save the information to a .ini file because I needed this for a simple game profile. I've tried to make it write "Name =" + txtname.Text but it won't work anymore. And as well as that, I don't think It will load the text back from the ini file.
Here's the code I used;
Public Class Form1
Dim hFile As Long
Dim sFilename As String
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
[Code] .....
Form designer: [URL]
Form1.resk: [URL]
Form1.vb: [URL]
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Dec 28, 2009
seeing as '.dat' files contain only what you want them to and there is no preset encryption for them etc could I write data to one by using this simple process:
1) Change file extension to '.txt'
2) Decrypt
3) Write
4) Encrypt
5) Change file extension to '.dat'
and pretty much the same for reading it. or am I thinking to simply?
I thought of the above way as i know how to write to text files already, but is this the best way to do it? or is there a better way?
EDIT: Nevermind you just write to it like a text file and encrypt/decrypt it. request lock/delete from mod.
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Jun 29, 2006
I am trying to create a bunch of records, there will be a limited number of "Codes", about 50. Each "Code" is associated with a name from a textbox, I was trying to have it save each one when you click a button, to a .txt file.So, from the start the record will be blank, the person will go through the form, choose a number from a numerical up and down box, pick a name associated with it (both of these are mandatory and not implied). When they click the button, it will save the contents I talked about into a .txt file, say the number is #2, and the name is "Bob", the next time they try to change that value for #2, it will overwrite "Bob".
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Jul 18, 2012
I have been given the task of basically reading and writing to and from files. Below is the code from one sub:
If btnSaveRecipe.Enabled = True Then
FileName = "C:UsersLeylaDocumentsRecipe TaskRecipe.txt"
FileWriter = New IO.StreamWriter(FileName)
[code]....
I can't work out what i've done wrong, but when I open the file itself in the folder, it is empty.
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Mar 11, 2010
Input File to read:
SAMPLE NO: 10S-02013
Moisture 10.1
[Code]....
I am not getting the right output I need, as whenever it reads a line, it looses my sample numeber.
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Apr 6, 2009
I'm writing a system with several programs, each of which will start off with a number of 'run time parameters' which will be stored in what I call 'personality files'. Each file will have about 10 elements ( file locations, logo files, dates, numbers , text strings ). I"m starting by building little programs which maintain ( build and modify ) the personality files. To begin the first one, I"m only reading/writing 3-4 strings ( I"ll graduate to dates and numbers later )When I run the program below, I get " The process cannot access the file 'c:yyyyyyyy.zzz' because it is being used by another process. ". I also get"A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.IOException' occurred in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll "
I get these errors even though I've done the usual stuff like deleting other versions of the test file, cancelling other processes which might be involved, and so on.
Code:
'.... user has clicked on SAVE in menustrip ....
Private Sub FileSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FileSave.Click
[code]....
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Mar 3, 2009
so i have it so that the user input three initials and presses an enter button. Then it goes into a listbox where theusers initials and game score enter. I then have it transfer to a text file. all this works but i need some code toun through the text file and arrange them from highest to lowestheres my current "HighScore" codei know its going to be a for loop but im a beginner in vb and it would be so much easier in java button1 is the enter buttonbutton2 is the save button that saves to a text file
Imports System.IO
Public Class HighScore
Dim objStreamWriter As StreamWriter
[code]......
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Sep 1, 2011
i was wondering does any know of any good tutorial on using dat files eg reading writing and formatting. I am pretty sure you and use stream reader and writer form the IO but what about formatting.
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Aug 28, 2010
I need to read the keys from several external applications .config files, is it possible to specify the file for AppSettingsReader?
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Nov 12, 2009
how I should go about getting the names of the computers on a network. And if the comp had file sharing on, get the "tree" of dirs on the computer. Would I need to authenticate myself in order to read/write actual files to it?
how to even get started, so I don't have any code - the best thing I can think about doing is getting the tree of "\\network" or something. (forgot what it was called)
find some code (or give some search keywords or names of APIs) that would allow me to see and write/create files on a networked comp.
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Jul 30, 2009
I am witting an app that will generate batch files to do an unattended installation of a share point 2007 farm. I already have a batch file I use and it's pretty big. I copied and pasted the content into my application, and I'm using the System.IO.StreamWriter to write to the batch file from the winform. [code]As you can probably guess, I'm doing all of this in my mainform code window. There are maybe 3 or 4 batch files that will be generated based on the selections made on the form. For example, I'm generating a batch file to create the OU, Group and service accounts the farm will use in active directory, I'm creating a batch file for all of the variables that will be used for the additional batch files created, etc. How can I split this up? is there a way to create the batch files without having to actually copy, paste my existing batch file content into the mainform code window? I'm using file.writeline on each line of the pasted content by the way.
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Feb 13, 2010
Our organization is using UniObjects for .NET but the CD seems to have gone missing. I need to figure out how to read and write to and from files in Universe. note the program is written in VB.NET
Dim uniSession As UniSession
Private DATABASE_IDENTIFIER As String = "uvcs"
uniSession = UniObjects.OpenSession(_hostname, _username, _password, _account, DATABASE_IDENTIFIER)
[Code]...
how to insert new values, and read values from the LICENCE_STATUS table.
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Aug 31, 2011
I have this htc evo phone of mine and I know there are programs that can read and write to the phone via com ports, well anyway is there a way to read and write to files on my phone via com ports, I know you can but how? Because the only thing I can do in comports in vb is ComPort1.Write() and ComPort1.Read so how do I navagate through the phone via comports and read a files contents. And write to it.
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Jan 23, 2012
i have started programming a diary sort of program. i have a home form which takes you to other features. im not sure if there is an easier way to do this but the view is week by week with a new week on a new form. and on each form i have a separate text box for each day. using the code:
'In the form load event:
txtMonday.Text = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("DayMonth.txt")
'In the text-changed & form closing event:
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("DayMonth.txt",
Monday.Text, False)
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Sep 1, 2009
I have created a code in VB.NET to read data from text files. Data is read from a list of files, where each file is changed using a for loop. Data is written to a new text files. Each file is read one by one and written in the same way. Now, my speed of execution is very slow. I am using a Quadcore processor with only 20-30% of CPU utilization when my code runs. Is there anyway I can increase the speed of reading and writing? To read only 125 files it takes 10 minutes or more, which is very slow indeed, because in the end I need to read thousands of files and write them. Each file is approxiamately 30-50kb.
Here is my code.
Public Sub ReadRMRDataFileIntoTextFiles()
'Read in the customerids once up front
Dim customerids As Collections.Generic.List(Of String)
[Code].....
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Dec 23, 2010
I coded anything but I remember when using VB6 or Pascal/Delphi we used to define records/ structures with fixed length fields, then write those structures to a file knowing that they would always be the same length. You could then open a particular record within the file or simply find out how many records existed by reading the file length.From what I understand, it seems that such methods are depreciated in VB.NET and such structures are written as a stream.Does it now mean that we can define things like variable length strings and not need to worry about buffers or boundaries?Is it possible to read through such files and pick out individual records? Are there methods of determining how many records that exist in a file? What I'm looking to do is simply store multiple records of a structure in a file then retrieve them into an array so I can manipulate their order by sorting the array and search within the array. This is only a learning project so it is unlikely that the resultant array is going to be large, although if this is not generaly a good method of doing this then it might be interesting to fidn out what is. So far, I have read that they way to write a structure to a file is to "serialises" it and then write the bytes - is this correct?[code]
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Dec 3, 2011
Their is a problem whenever I want to write something to a text file. Please see the attatchement to see what happens when I'm debugging. I've put the code for writing to file right at the end of the program.Here is some of the code which shows how the program writes to and reads from the file:
Option Explicit On
'Force all variables to be declared.
Imports System.IO
[code].....
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Jul 18, 2010
I have just recently been using VB 2010 after using VB5. I have noticed a lot of changes. The problem I have is that I wish to open and save text files to and from arrays in the background. I've attached what I would do in VB5. I have searched around, but all the examples I find use a Textbox instead of an array. Can anyone show me how I can do this with VB 2010?
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Sep 7, 2011
I can write a 1-d string array to file with:
Dim test() As String = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
File.WriteAllLines("C:MyFile.txt", test)
but can't see how to write a 2-d array to file.
I've tried this:
Dim test(,) As String = {{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, {34, 22, 12, 33, 55}}
Dim myfile = File.CreateText("C:MyFile.txt")
Dim row, col As Integer
[Code].....
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Jul 20, 2009
im not able to find lots of command that i used to use in vb 6 i want to know the syntax for READING THE TEXT FILE and WRITING THE RESULT IN TEXT FILE in vb6 i used the following syntax:: Open "infile90.txt" For Input As #1 this is giving me error...
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Aug 1, 2011
lock from reading/writing/copying a loaded XML file with XDocument.Load [VB 2010]?
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Jun 24, 2011
Am writing a simple application which can write a to pdf,doc,xls and access files. so far it can write to word.i also want it to be able to navigate a hard disk and open these files using filters. i was using this code to write to the files
[Code]...
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Dec 18, 2010
The drive is connected via USB and the problem I'm having is that, periodically, while my code is executing, the usb drive seems to disconnect and reconnect. (Nothing to do with the program, but the drive itself).I want to find a way to prevent these temporary drive reconnects from interrupting my code. IE, i want to insure that whatever read or write that is requested is actually executed even in the case of a temporary drive interruption.
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Jan 16, 2012
so I want to make a button in one of my programs that writes text to a file. I know how to do that part. I use:
[Code]...
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Aug 4, 2010
I have a quick question. One of the functions in the program I am writing is to take all of the data entered, compile it into an HTML document, then place that document into a folder.For the past few days, I have just been using a random folder on one of my hard drives to dump the file in, but the problem is that, in my code, I have supplied the folder location as a string ("E:Practice FilesDocuments"), and therein lies the problem. Trying to test my program on a separate system brought the bug to my attention; obviously, this program can only write this file to a location of E:Practice FilesDocuments, and if any other computer that runs this program doesn't have E:Practice FilesDocuments then there is going to be a problem in the program working the way I have intended
So what I would like to do is instead of having it write the file to "E:Practice FilesDocuments," have it write to the default My Documents folder so that the program is no longer specific to my machine only. The problem is, though, I have no clue what the right code is to use. I first tried using
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location to write the file to the default installation directory. This would have worked, but since this is a VB.NET program, the default installation directory isn't in Program Files and doesn't seem to be meant for users to browse through for their documents, plus it seems that trying to write back to this directory causes some unhanded exceptions and whatnot. I figured it would just be easier to create a folder in My Documents rather than use the install directory (and probably smarter).
[Code]...
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Mar 11, 2012
I have a tar.gz file which contains other tar.gz files. For example: file1.gz contains a.gz, b.gz, c.gx, and so on.I can read tar.gz files which have no embedded gz files. However, I need the ability to read embedded gz files. The following is a code snippet which reads .gz files which are not embedded - this works fine. how I can read embedded gz files?
For Each fi As FileInfo In di.GetFiles("*.gz")
fullPath = dirpath + "" + fi.ToString
dirInstream = New GZipStream(File.OpenRead(fullPath), CompressionMode.Decompress)
[code]....
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Nov 16, 2010
I am trying to open a text file and read data based on what the user types, but am having problems because of the Input past End of File errors.
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