Read Text File into String Variable

Reads an entire text file into a string variable.

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Dim fac As New Chilkat.FileAccess()

Dim fileText As String

'  Reads the entire contents of a text file into a string variable.
'  The 2nd arg specifies the character encoding used for
'  the contents of the text file.
fileText = fac.ReadEntireTextFile("hamlet.xml","utf-8")

TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & fileText & vbCrLf