[Year 12 SofDev] Random access files

[Bell, Kenneth C]

Hello Mark,

The students and myself have practiced reading from and writing to random access files in visual studio 2005.   It works successfully, but opening the text file to view the data we have stored in the text file.... it looks like garbage. The great thing about sequential files is that you can see exactly how the data has been written to the text file.
I assumed that if it worked in visual studio 2005, it would still work in vb2010.


Regards

Ken Bell
Mortlake College


From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Random access files

Hi all.  I used to use random files in VB6, but trying to unearth them in VB2010 Express is a problem... annoyingly, they seem to have been deprecated in favour of database solutions.

Do other GUI languages out there still support random access files?

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