How to: Read Text from a File

using System;
using System.IO;

class Test
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        try
        {
            // Create an instance of StreamReader to read from a file.
            // The using statement also closes the StreamReader.
            using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("TestFile.txt"))
            {
                String line;
                // Read and display lines from the file until the end of
                // the file is reached.
                while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(line);
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            // Let the user know what went wrong.
            Console.WriteLine("The file could not be read:");
            Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.IO;

public class TextFromFile
{
    private const string FILE_NAME = "MyFile.txt";

    public static void Main()
    {
        if (!File.Exists(FILE_NAME))
        {
            Console.WriteLine("{0} does not exist.", FILE_NAME);
            return;
        }
        using (StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(FILE_NAME))
        {
            String input;
            while ((input = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(input);
            }
            Console.WriteLine ("The end of the stream has been reached.");
        }
    }
}