Visual Basic: how to append data to an existing file on SD

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Hi,

I’m trying to log data in a file on SD, using a timer, for this I need to be able to APPEND data to an existing data file on the SD, however, it seems the append method is not available within Visual Basic…

So, right now I have following code, which re-creates the “data.txt” file every time.


Private Sub StorageTimer_Tick(timer As Gadgeteer.Timer) Handles StorageTimer.Tick
  ' Write to file
  Storage.GetStorageDevice.WriteFile("\data.txt", EncodedTxt)
End Sub

How to append?

Thanks,
Stefan

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The append option is accessed through the use of a FileStream object.

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something like:


Dim SDfile As System.IO.FileStream

SDfile = SDCard.Open(file,System.IO.FileMode.Append,System.IO.FileAccess.Write)
SDfile.Write(...data...)
SDfile.Close()
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James & Daniel,

Thank you very much, I got it working now!

Regards,
Stefan