StreamReader Class Implements a TextReader that reads characters from a byte stream in a particular encoding.
Imports System Imports System.IO Class Test Public Shared Sub Main() Try Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader("TestFile.txt") Dim line As String Do line = sr.ReadLine() Console.WriteLine(Line) Loop Until line Is Nothing sr.Close() Catch E As Exception ' Let the user know what went wrong. Console.WriteLine("The file could not be read:") Console.WriteLine(E.Message) End Try End Sub End Class