I am using the folowing code to display the contents of a text file in a web form. I get "type or namespace definition, or end of file expected" and "{ expected". I am new to this, can some help? Thank you. Joe

namespace WebApplication8
{
    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public class readf
    {
        public readf()
        {
            //
            // TODO: Add constructor logic here
            public string ReadFromFile(string path, string fileName)
            {
                System.IO.StreamReader sr = File.OpenText("c:\\comcatch\\blah.txt");
                String text = sr.ReadToEnd();
                sr.Close();

                return text;
            }
        }
    }

}

I withdraw my own question. I am using different code and getting close to what I want.Apologies.
Joe

for working on un-managed resources like here you should always write your codes in a way to assure you finally you'r freeing them(here the handle to the file)
so declare the stream in using keyword or..

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Mehdi.
software student.