Visual Studio inserts invalid characters in batch files

Question

I\'ve got some batch files that I use to help automate the process of creating and reloading development databases. It makes sense to create and maintain these batch files

Answer 1

While this was useful in my quest to solve the issue in Visual basic, the solution is to tell VB to use ASCII encoding as shown below:

Try
        outFile = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter(myPath, True, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)
        outFile.WriteLine(macroText)
        outFile.Close()
 Catch ex As Exception