Read text from a file on a local computer (C#, VB and ASP.NET) | Free code

Here you can download free code (C# and VB) to read text from a file on a local computer by uploading a text file to a folder on a web server, read text from the file on the web server and then delete the file from the folder on the web server.

Code to load and read a file from a local computer is useful in cases where you develops web applications that rely on information retrieved from files stored on a local computer, for instance a web-based image editor, word processor or cd-burning application.

In this template with free code (C# and VB) to read text from a file on a local computer is there a form where a user can select a file with a label that displays the contents of the text file. We have used a FileUpload control to let the user browse to a file on a local computer and we have to upload the file temporarily to the web server before we can read from the file for security reasons. The fact that we only want to access the information from the text file at this time we will remove the file from the folder on the web server when we have read the contents of the file, the file is saved temporarily on the web server. In the code to read text from a file on a local computer have we used "Try/Catch/Finally" for error handling so that exceptions are handled in the code.

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