How to create text file with a name base on a text box.

[apptech]

I am writing a small application for my company. There are two text boxes and a submit button. textBox1 is where the information is entered to be write to the text file. TextBox2 is where the the user is suppose to enter the name of the file. Problem is I can't get get Textbox 2 to work. The file is created with the static name in the code but I can't figure out how to make the name it self using TextBox2. Where is my code for this section. As you can see the value entered into TextBox2 is assigned to the file name variable. I just don't know how to add static information to:
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fi lename);

        string filename;     

        filename = TextBox2.Text;

        StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(filename);
        sw.WriteLine(textBox1.Text);
        sw.Flush();
        sw.Close();

[Curtis Rutland]

What do you mean by "static information"?

You should just be able to grab text from the textbox the way you just did.

[Frinavale]

Have you considered using an OpenFileDialog control to retrieve the correct path/file name that the user wants to work with?

Are you getting any error messages?
Or are you just having problems retrieving the file info?

[apptech]

path and extension

I want the path the file will be uploaded to an the file extension to be static and they just type in the name of the file.

[Frinavale]

Have you looked at using a masked text box?

[apptech]

Not really

No, How does that work?

[Frinavale]

Check it out :D

-Frinny

[Curtis Rutland]

Or define the path and extension in code, and request the filename.

string path = @"c:\test\";
string extension = ".txt";
string fullpath = path + TextBox2.Text + extension

[apptech]

Thanks

Thanks insertAlias, that will work.

[tlhintoq]

Or define the path and extension in code, and request the filename.

string path = @"c:\test\";
string extension = ".txt";
string fullpath = path + TextBox2.Text + extension

May I throw in a couple suggestions to 'beef up' the function for the real world?

Don't assume you have a C: drive. Silly as it might sound, it is possible to set up a PC where the boot drive is J: or some other letter. It doesn't cost anything to ask the OS for its SystemDrive and build your string from there.

Don't assume the directory hierarchy exists at write-time. It does no harm to make the directory again, just in case someone decided to do some hard drive clean up and deleted what was an empty directory at that time.

Don't assume you have rights to the directory you're writing to. What happens if someone changes the path to read-only or takes away your permissions to write to it? You could start writing a file that never gets created.

Don't assume the user only enters "Filename" in the text box. What if the user enters "Filename.t xt" in the text box? You don't need a file named "Filename.txt.t xt" because you blindly added '.txt' to whatever they entered.
Personally I like this construct because it fixes a bad extension and adds one if needed

string FileNameVariable = Path.ChangeExtension(FileNameVariable, ".txt");

And you probably want to parse the file name the user enters to strip out any illegal filename characters like ? * / and so on.

In short don't assume anything except that every condition you're expecting will be wrong, and that anything the user can do to foul up your program will be done.