Gang,
I am self taught in C and fairly proficient for last 20 years.  Don't
program much, just little utilities for work.  Been wanting to create
windows forms and found MS VC++ Express.  Installed it, bought book, etc.

Book doesn't cover files.  From other sources I have the following:

#pragma once
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

//in a buttonclick function

std::ifstream infile;
String^ testText;

openFileDialog1->ShowDialog();             //Search for file and put name in
textBox1->Text = openFileDialog1->FileName; // a textbox on the form and in
testText = textBox1->Text;                 // a text variable.

I then want to open the file listed in textBox1 and testText.

infile.open(testText);

That doesn't work.  I get an error, C2664

I am totally confused by different strings, different ways of opening files,
managed, unmanaged .....

I created the project as just a CLR Windows Forms Application in VC++
Express.  All I need to do is get a filename from openFileDialog into a
textbox for reading and another for writing from another textbox, read the
lines from one file, manipulate the string a bit and write it out to the
other.

Any help appreciated.

Lee