Question

Ive been trying for a while now to get a rich textbox to populate from a text file. Normally I would say this is easy and there are tons of solutions on here for it. My only issue is I don’t want the open file dialog to populate it I want it to be populated on the onload event of the form, and populate from a known text file on the network drive here. Every solution I find seems to be asking for the users input to open the file I don’t want this. This is due to the fact that when the text file is edited( which it will often be) I want the textbox to mimic this rather then have an outdated version hard coded in. Please help

Answer 1

If you know the location then

const string Myfile = @"c:\test\myfile.rtf";

richTextBox1.Loadfile(Myfile);

you can use UNC etc, but it may error if it cant find the file – so I would suggest file checks etc.