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Question

If I'm going in the wrong direction, please feel free to give me some guidance!
I'm having trouble understanding the use of streams in the Visual Studio for Windows 8 Apps and Windows 8 Phone Apps environment.
All I want to do is read some text from a file into a string. Here's my simple code that I would use for Visual Studio for Windows Desktop:
Sub ReadFromFileTest()
Dim FilePath As String = "c:\2012\Projects\VBDesktopTest\Test.txt"
Dim ReadString As String
Dim Reader As New System.IO.StreamReader(FilePath)
ReadString = Reader.ReadLine()
Do Until ReadString Is Nothing
OutputListBox.Items.Add(ReadString)
ReadString = Reader.ReadLine()
Loop
Reader.Close()
Reader.Dispose()
End Sub
This same code in Visual Studio for Windows 8 Applications generates an error: "value of type 'string' cannot be converted to 'system.io.stream'". I've looked through the list of constructors for the StreamReader class and I see that StreamReader(file name as string) is not supported in ".NET for Windows Store apps". It seems I need to use the StreamReader(stream) constructor but I can't seem to figure out how to make a make my file into a stream.
My ultimate goal is to create a simple app for Windows Phone 7.1 that looks up and returns information from a list of equipment stored in a text file. I'm starting with Windows 8 so as not to further confuse myself with the phone emulator.

Answer 1

See I have no idea of Vb .net But I am sharing the c# code (function) that serves the purpose for windows phone
private string ReadFile(string filePath)
{
//this verse is loaded for the first time so fill it from the text file
var ResrouceStream = Application.GetResourceStream(new Uri(filePath, UriKind.Relative));
if (ResrouceStream != null)
{
Stream myFileStream = ResrouceStream.Stream;
if (myFileStream.CanRead)
{
StreamReader myStreamReader = new StreamReader(myFileStream);
//read the content here
return myStreamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
return "NULL";
}
The answer i took is from this link
Reading files from stream windows phone