Saving Text Box to File

[Asprisa]

Hi Guys,

I'm new to programming and i am starting a basic project, so far i have done well researching various bits on the net but have come across a problem and wondered if any one would help?

All i am trying to do is:

click a button called save and the info from txtbox_txt.text to go to a .txt file on c:\ drive but i want it to name the file as the date and time the file is created.

any ideas?

p.s i am using visual studio express 2005

Jay!

[Ali Rizwan]

Hi Guys,

I'm new to programming and i am starting a basic project, so far i have done well researching various bits on the net but have come across a problem and wondered if any one would help?

All i am trying to do is:

click a button called save and the info from txtbox_txt.text to go to a .txt file on c:\ drive but i want it to name the file as the date and time the file is created.

any ideas?

p.s i am using visual studio express 2005

Jay!

Hello,
I don't know a lot of VB 2005 but the code i m providing will help you in VB 2005 to save a textbox to a file.

First add a refrence Microsoft Scripting Runtime

Declarations

Dim fso As New FileSystemObject
Dim f As File
Dim s As TextStream
 

Now add this code to Save button on Click Event

 
fso.CreateTextFile(txtpath.text,true)
Set f = fso.GetFile(txtPath.text)
Set s = f.OpenAsTextStream(ForReading)
s.writeline(txtbox_txt.text)
 

Add another textbox named txtpath where you will enter the path and file name

GOODLUCK
ALI

[Asprisa]

Hi There,

Thanks for the reply! I managed to do it a slightly diffrent way in the end, but you set me on the right path, here is what i did!

SaveFileDialog1.FileName = Name + ".txt"
SaveFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "z:\public_html\handovernotes\"
SaveFileDialog1.Filter = "Text files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*"

If SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then

My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(SaveFileDialog 1.FileName, RichTextBox1.Text, False)

End If


Thanks for your help!!

Jay