How to open Notepad from a Windows Forms application and place some text in it?

Question

I\'m using VB.NET and Visual Studio 2008.

My question is: How do I open Notepad from a Windows Forms application, and then place some text string in the Notepad wind

Answer 1

The easiest approach is to write a text-file, then open that, rather than the other way round.

You can use System.File.IO.WriteAllText, and the System.Diagnostics.Process class.

A quick code-sample would be along these lines:

File.WriteAllText (
    @"C:\temp\myFile.txt", 
    "This is my letter header\nIt has a new-line in it")
Process.Start("notepad.exe", @"C:\temp\myFile.txt");