[Crash893]

im makeing a small app to help me add entries to the hosts file in windows

i got most of it down except

when i

Code:

    Dim hostwriter As New StreamWriter("c:\hosts.txt")

            'Write line to hosts file
            hostwriter.WriteLine(vbNewLine & "127.0.0.1 ".PadRight(10) & TextBox1.Text.PadRight(5) & " #Blocked by Robert Barbrow")
            hostwriter.Close()

i know hosts insnt in c:\ its just a test file till i get it working


i get one line in the hosts file then it will over write that same line
how do i get streamwriter to read the lentgh of the file then increment it down one to add my entire?

[Tacoman667]

Dim hostwriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter("c:\hosts.txt", True)


The true arguement makes it append to the end of the file.

[Tacoman667]

If you wanted to put the new entry in the beginning of the file, you should do this:

Dim tString as string
Dim hostwriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter("c:\hosts.txt")

tstring = hostwriter.readall
hostwriter = New System.IO.StreamWriter("c:\hosts.txt")
hostwriter.WriteLine(tstring & vbNewLine & "127.0.0.1 ".PadRight(10) & TextBox1.Text.PadRight(5) & " #Blocked by Robert Barbrow")
hostwriter.Close()

[Crash893]

thanks for your quick response

that extra ,true at the end works perfect

[Tacoman667]

Happy to help.