[Help]Save Text to Desktop[Solved]

[ppl2pass]

How do you make an option in vb.net to save text to desktop?

[Blubb1337]

did you google yet?...

google for streamwriter.

[Bombsaway707]

Let me google that for you
Click It Click It Click It, its majix

[zmansquared]

Here you go. Thank me please

Change the user name to yours

[php]Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim TextFile As New StreamWriter("c:\Users\Zack\Desktop\test.txt")
TextFile.WriteLine("Text here")
' make more of these TextFile.WriteLine("Text here")to get more lines.
TextFile.Close()



End Sub
End Class[/php]

[NextGen1]

Professionally and commercially you would want to do this without hard-coding the direct path , because if a 3rd party uses it, they will not be able to save the txt file to the desktop path.

Use

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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim DesktopPath As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolde r.DesktopDirectory)

Dim TextFile As New StreamWriter(DesktopPath & test.txt")
TextFile.WriteLine("Text here") ' or textbox.text
' make more of these TextFile.WriteLine("Text here")to get more lines.
TextFile.Close()


End Sub
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A good note to all developers is to remember that vb.net allows you to access user folders as special folders without hardcoding the user name and path

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Environment.SpecialFolder.
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This will give you access to

Cookies
Desktop
My Pictures
My Documents
History
etc
etc

Without the need for the username

added to code snippets vault post 1


this will allow saving to anyones desktop

[zmansquared]

You copied some of my code nextgen . LOL

[NextGen1]

Its MSDN Standard, But yes I part of your above example to make sense of the prior :d

[zmansquared]

Woot Nextgen1 used one of my examples WOOT. HAH thanks

[MJLover]

OR

[php] My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(My.Computer.Fi leSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop & "\filename.txt", "Text here...", False)
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