How to: Write Text to Files with a StreamWriter - Visual Basic In this article. This example opens a StreamWriter object with the My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter method and uses it to write a string to a text file with the WriteLine method of the StreamWriter class.. Example Dim file As System.IO.StreamWriter file = My.Computer.FileSystem.OpenTextFileWriter("c:\test.txt", True) file.WriteLine("Here is the first string.") file.Close()