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[Shim]

hello programmer(s)

<!--- shim need your help -->

i have a combobox and i want to load a textfile hosted on my host and also the texts should be organized

[noypikami]

can you explain further? please! may be i can help.

[muttley1968]

If im thinking you want it like a sorta multiple choice system deal then you best bet would be to format the text into a listbox
and then populate that into the combobox alot easier that way and not to big of a code job

[smashapps]

First off you can sort all items of a combox box by setting its SORTING property to TRUE.

You will need to download the text file, read it line by line and then add them by using AddRange and read all lines of the text file

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Imports System.IO

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Try
            'First off we need to downlaod the text file
            My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xX9sSc7K", Application.StartupPath & "/text.txt", "", "", True, 100, True)
            'here we download the file, set user and pass to default and we show the ui of the progress, 100 second timeout and we want to override the 
            'file if it exists already if it exists already so we have an updated version each time


            'now we will read the text file and add items to comboxbox
            ComboBox1.Items.AddRange(File.ReadAllLines(Application.StartupPath & "/text.txt"))
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox("Error" & vbNewLine & ex.Message)
        End Try

       
    End Sub
End Class

For this you will need a combobox thats it. I wrote this example myself and I set the link to a pastebin file, just change it the link of your text file. It should be easy to understand, we download the text file and save it in the programs startup location, we read all lines of the text file and then add them to the combox, to sort the items we set the sorting property to true.

[Shim]

i dont want to download the file and read it i just want to do this

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 Dim client As WebClient
        Dim shim As String = client.DownloadString("http://website.com/file.txt")
        ComboBox1.Items.Add(shim)

[smashapps]

Did you still need help? Your code there will have everything in that one file added as one item

I am not particularly sure what you want out of this. If you didn't want the file to be store on the computer you can always use

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My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile("")

[Shim]

no when i use my code the text all mess in the combo

[visualtech]

Try This:

Dim r As IO.StreamReader

r = New IO.StreamReader("Path To Your File")
While (r.Peek() > -1)
ComboBox1.Items.Add(r.ReadLine)
End While
r.Close()

[muttley1968]

Is it possible for you to tell is what you are wanting this code to do and also giving us a link to the file so we can attempt to code up wat you want

[Shim]

Try This:

Dim r As IO.StreamReader

r = New IO.StreamReader("Path To Your File")
While (r.Peek() > -1)
ComboBox1.Items.Add(r.ReadLine)
End While
r.Close()

thanks but its on internet