>>You could use a FileStream object instead of a File object + StreamWriter.
>
>Could you provide an example?
>
>TIA

        Dim s As String
        Dim fs As New StreamWriter("MyFile.txt")
        fs.WriteLine(s)
        fs.Close()

The declaration initializes a FileStream with a StreamWriter wrapper. You can get to the underlying FileStream with .BaseStream for things like ansynchronous read/write.