And an Example Program for String Processing

This article has two goals. First, to Illustrate programming techniques like OpenfileDialog and SaveFileDialog, the new .NET StringBuilder object, and how to use RegEx (Regular Expressions).

The second goal is to provide a handy file scanning utility to display text strings inside any file. Check it out here.

There are a lot of ways to process simple files in VB.NET. The problem is that there are too many, and most references drown you with detail about all of the features of just one specific way. This article takes a different approach. All of the ways to do simple file processing are presented at a summary level so you can see what's available and take your pick. The methods presented range from legacy objects like LineInput to serialization, TextFieldParser, and LINQ to XML.