Looking for info on filehandling

Looking for info on filehandling

• WinstonPennypacker

  .NET has a printer class which you can use and print to the printer. Many examples here on the forums on how to do this.

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.printdocument.print.aspx

   

  in regards to textfiles, take a look at how to write to a file:

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.streamwriter.aspx

  (also scroll down right to the bottom and there are links there on how to write to a file)

  alternatively if you are just logging, you could also log to the System event logs as well by using the EventLog class

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.eventlog.aspx

   

  I hope this gives you a head start!

  
  
  

• hammar

  Thanks for the reply, i'm still haivng some trouble though.
  
  In my test application i want to simply save the contents of a rich textbox to a txt file.
  this is the code:
  
  System.IO.StreamWriter myText = new System.IO.StreamWriter(@"c:\test2.txt");
  myText.Write(mainText.Text);
  myText.Close();
  
  The problem is that it just saves everything in a single line, im trying to achive a notepad like thing but it just dosent work.
  Do i really have to loop through the string and manually look for the new line characters -_-
  
  
  

• Xcel

  Thanks that worked perectly.
  What i meant by "one line" is that when i wanted to save
  
  "hi
  bla
  
  yoyo"
  
  the contents of the textfile became:
  "hiblayoyo"
  
  Just as if it ignored or treated the return signs as text, however i think it's just notepad (wich i used to open and check the files in) that dosen't get it.
  
  Anyway thanks.
  
  
  

• bezlali

  well fortunately for you, the RTB control has a SaveFile method. Simply call it, give it the name of the file to save to and the richtextboxstreamtype enum value. In this case, plain text:

   

  this.theRichTextBoxControl.SaveFile("filename.txt", RichTextBoxStreamType.PlainText);

   

  does this work

  the code you posted should work also and should save the contents of the richtextbox to the file...no idea what you mean by "one line". it should save the entire contents as is, just like the code above

  
  
  
• Looking for info on filehandling