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I don't know about you fellow .NET programmers, but I don't often come across a need to read from text files often when I am programing in .NET. As such, I find that every time I need to do this, I have to use Google to refresh myself on how to do it. Recently, i found a much easier  way of reading text files that I felt compelled to share.

VB.NET

Dim s as String
Dim file_path as String = "C:\test.txt"

'Storing the text from the test.txt file in a string variable
s = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(file_path)

C#

string s;
string file_path = "C:\test.txt";

//Storing the text from the test.txt file in a string variable
s = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(file_path);

I hope this is as useful to you as it was for me.