FileSystem.WriteAllText (broken methodl)

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Jared - 11 Jul 2006 07:30 GMT

Hi - I am trying to dynamically write vbscript file to c drive. But it will
not execute. I have notice some crap in windiff which suggest that VB has
unusual way of creating a file. Anyway it doesn't work and I was hoping to
use the script to bypass some chunky .NET schedule task code.

Anyone know about creating VBS file from VB.NET?

'--code below

Dim c As Char = """"c
Dim s As String
s = "WScript.Echo " + c + "Hello World" + c
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("c:\test.vbs", s, False)

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 11 Jul 2006 10:57 GMT

"Jared" <jared@dfidfoe.com> schrieb:

> Hi - I am trying to dynamically write vbscript file to c drive. But it
> will not execute. I have notice some crap in windiff which suggest that
> VB has unusual way of creating a file.

Maybe you are seeing an UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark) at the beginning of the
file.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 12 Jul 2006 10:33 GMT

Addendum:

> Maybe you are seeing an UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark) at the beginning of
> the file.

The overloaded version of 'WriteAllText' accepts an 'Encoding' object. Pass
in 'System.Text.Encoding.Default' to use the systems ANSI CP.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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Jared - 12 Jul 2006 01:04 GMT

WriteAllText is poor method

use StreamWriter ...

Dim writer As IO.StreamWriter = IO.File.CreateText(xPath)

writer.WriteLine(xText)
writer.Close()

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