Reading from a file using the System.IO.File class C# with Example
You can use the System.IO.File.ReadAllText function to read the entire contents of a file into a string. string text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(@"C:\MyFolder\MyTextFile.txt"); You can also read a file as an array of lines using the System.IO.File.ReadAllLines function: string[] lines = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@"C:\MyFolder\MyTextFile.txt");