Open a File in vb.net 2008

How to open a file in VB.NET?

Explanation

Opening a File in Vb.net 2008.

To open a file, the File.OpenText method of the FileStream class is used along with the StreamReader class. Files are opened by default in synchronous mode, by using contructors files can also be opened asynchronously.
Example:

Imports System.IO
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim r As StreamReader
r = File.OpenText("c:sample1.txt")
Console.WriteLine(r.ReadToEnd)
Console.Read()
r.Close()
End Sub
End Module
Result:

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This is an example to open a File

In the above example, the File.OpenText method and the StreamReader class is used to open a text file 'sample1.txt'.

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