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• dpua

  The following should set the focus to the textbox3 control.

  You need to be a little careful about the event that you put it in as later events may trump it and set it to something else.

  Public Class Form1
  Private Sub Form1_Shown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Shown
  TextBox3.Focus()
  End Sub
  End Class
  

  
  

• Geo V

  Here is your problem:

  swPass.WriteLine(Me.btnPassCreate.Text)
  

  I'm guessing that btnPassCreate is a button, and that the text of the button is "Create." So, when you write the value to your file, all you ever get is "Create." You probably want:

  swPass.WriteLine(Me.txtPassCreate.Text)

  (The text property of the control where the user is actually entering their password.)
  

  
  

• hindi

  System.IO.File.Exists will tell you if the file exists.

  
  
  

• Jochen Kalmbach

  Ok, here is what I have now, when the program starts it ask user to create a password, which it then writes to the file C:\Pass.txt, the problem is that no matter what password you write, when you look at the file C:\Pass.txt it has the word 'Create' written in it, what have I got wrong
  
  Public Class PassCreate
  
  Private Sub btnPassCreate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPassCreate.Click
  'declare a streamwriter variable
  Dim swPass As IO.StreamWriter
  
  Try
  'create a StreamWriter Object by opening file for append
  swPass = IO.File.AppendText("C:\Pass.txt")
  
  'write name on a seperate line in the file
  swPass.WriteLine(Me.btnPassCreate.Text)
  
  'close the file
  swPass.Close()
  
  'clear the name txtbx and send it the focus
  Me.txtPasscreate.Text = ""
  Me.txtPasscreate.Focus()
  
  
  Catch ex As Exception
  'handles any errors
  MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "PGS", _
  MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information)
  
  End Try
  
  Me.Hide()
  PGS.Show()
  End Sub
  
  

• Noxious

  Thanks Mac,
  Yes ,I was writing the value of the button text to the file and the button text is 'Create',
  Obvious when someone points it out.
  
  
  
  

• Firedancer

  Thanks Spotty,
  This showed me how to write text to a file, I do have one more question please, when the form loads how do I get the Text box to have the focus so that it is ready to have the password entered.
  
  
  

• phil_h

  Thanks yet again.
  I've learnt more here in 24hrs than I have using the help section in weeks!
  The answer you gave has worked, I don't think it will cause a problem for me in this case as once the password is entered the form is finished with but it is something I will bear in mind for other programs.
  
  

• Irina!

  Why are you opening the file to append Best guess, btnPassCreate.Text is "", and the word 'create' was put in at some point and is not being removed.

  
  
  

• avinashraj

  If your using 2005/Express then the following will work

  Public Class PassCreate
  
  Private Sub btnPassCreate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPassCreate.Click
  
  Try
  My.Computer.Filesystem.WriteAllText("C:\Pass.txt", Me.btnPassCreate.Text, False)
  
  'clear the name txtbx and send it the focus
  Me.txtPasscreate.Text = ""
  Me.txtPasscreate.Focus()
  
  
  Catch ex As Exception
  'handles any errors
  MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "PGS", _
  MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information)
  
  End Try
  
  Me.Hide()
  PGS.Show()
  End

  
  
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