Private Sub miOpen_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles miOpen.Click With OFD .Filter = "Text files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*" .FilterIndex = 1 .Title = "" End With 'show the open dialog and if the user clicks the open button, load the file If OFD.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then Dim alltext As String Try 'save the file name filename = OFD.FileName 'read the contents of the file alltext = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(filename) 'display the file contents in the testbox tb.Text = alltext Catch fileException As Exception Throw fileException End Try End If End Sub