help exporting text

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hey guys i need some help, i have a text box and a button next to it i want people to type in stuff into the text box then press the button, when they press the button the stuff in the text box will be saveed as a lua file (a lua file is just a txt filw with a different extension)

Scott Lysle · Answer

A simple example showing both writing to a file from a textbox and reading a file into text box; of course there are other ways to do it but this one should suffice. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.IO; namespace TextBoxToFile { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void tsbSave_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { saveFileDialog1.Title = "Open LUA File" ; saveFileDialog1.Filter = "LUA | *.lua" ; saveFileDialog1.DefaultExt = "lua" ; saveFileDialog1.FileName = "" ; saveFileDialog1.ShowDialog(); if (saveFileDialog1.FileName == "" ) return ; StreamWriter sw; FileStream fs; string fName = saveFileDialog1.FileName; fs = new FileStream (fName, FileMode .OpenOrCreate); sw = new StreamWriter (fs); sw.Write(txtContent.Text); sw.Close(); fs.Close(); } private void tsbOpen_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { openFileDialog1.Title = "Open LUA File" ; openFileDialog1.Filter = "LUA | *.lua" ; openFileDialog1.DefaultExt = "lua" ; openFileDialog1.FileName = "" ; openFileDialog1.ShowDialog(); if (openFileDialog1.FileName == "" ) return ; FileStream fs = new FileStream (openFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode .Open, FileAccess .Read); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader (fs); txtContent.Text = sr.ReadToEnd(); sr.Close(); fs.Close(); } } }