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[/size][font=Courier New][size=2][color=#0000ff]Dim[/color][/size][size=2] strtext [/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]As[/color][/size][size=2] [/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]String[/color][/size][/font][size=2][font=Courier New] = "some text"[/font]
[/size][font=Courier New][size=2][color=#0000ff]Dim[/color][/size][size=2] bytes [/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]As[/color][/size][size=2] [/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]Byte[/color][/size][/font][size=2][font=Courier New]() = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(strtext)[/font]
[/size][font=Courier New][size=2][color=#0000ff]Dim[/color][/size][size=2] fStream [/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]As[/color][/size][size=2] [/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]New[/color][/size][/font][size=2][font=Courier New] IO.FileStream("C:\testing.txt", IO.FileMode.OpenOrCreate)[/font]
[/size][font=Courier New][size=2][color=#0000ff]Dim[/color][/size][size=2] sStream [/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]As[/color][/size][size=2] IO.Stream = [/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]DirectCast[/color][/size][/font][size=2][font=Courier New](fStream, IO.Stream)[/font]
[font=Courier New]sStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)[/font]
[font=Courier New]MessageBox.Show("done")[/font]
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