Friday, November 16, 2012

Write text to Notepad using C#

 

In this article i will illustrate how to create text file , write and append text to it using C#.

Aspx Code :

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="SaveTextToaFile.aspx.cs" Inherits="Forum_Topics_SaveTextToaFile" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>SAVING TEXT TO A FILE</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    Write few words about you:
                </td>
                <td>
                    <asp:TextBox ID="txtAboutYou" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2" align="center">
                    <asp:Button ID="btnSaveText" runat="server" Text="SaveText" OnClick="btnSaveText_Click" />           
                </td>
            </tr>
             <tr>
                <td colspan="2" align="left">
                <asp:Label ID="lblMsg" runat="server" ForeColor="Red" ></asp:Label>
                </td>           
            </tr>
        </table>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Code Behind :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.IO;

public partial class Forum_Topics_SaveTextToaFile : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }
    protected void btnSaveText_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        /*FILE NAME OR PATH TO FILE*/
        string Filename = "C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\Profile.txt";
        //CHECK FOR FILE EXISTENCE
        if (!File.Exists(Filename))
        {
            //CREATE FILE
            StreamWriter txtFile = File.CreateText(Filename);
            txtFile.Close();
            //APPEND TEXT
            txtFile = File.AppendText(Filename);
            txtFile.WriteLine(txtAboutYou.Text);
            txtFile.Close();
        }
        else
            //APPEND TEXT
            File.AppendAllText(Filename, txtAboutYou.Text);

        lblMsg.Text = "Text is saved";
    }
}

1 comment:

  1. thank you so much brother for sharing your knowledge , i have used your code in my project and working properly thanks alot

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