Intermediate VB.NET Programming Lesson 6. Working with Text Files

This is the sixth in a series of computer science video tutorials for intermediate Visual Basic programmers who have completed the beginner’s series of video tutorials or are already familiar with the VB.NET syntax for the fundamental programming constructs. In this lesson you will learn how to write code that works with external text files. This will allow you to save some data before an application is closed down, and retrieve it when the application is running again. For example, to save the high scores of a game. You will learn how to use methods of the StreamWriter and StreamReader objects to achieve this. This lesson also suggests a number of coding exercises that you can try for yourself; you can see their solutions in the next lesson. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:34 Import the System.IO Library 01:09 The StreamWriter 05:11 The StreamReader 08:44 Exercises