Textreader and TextWriter are the another way to read and write file respectively, even though these are not stream classes. The StreamReader and StreamWriter classes are derived from TextReader and TextWriter classes respectively. The following sample source showing how write in a file using TextWriter .
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Try
Dim writeFile As System.IO.TextWriter = New _
StreamWriter("c:\textwriter.txt")
writeFile.WriteLine("vb.net-informations.com")
writeFile.Flush()
writeFile.Close()
writeFile = Nothing
Catch ex As IOException
MsgBox(ex.ToString)
End Try
End Sub
End Class