[Coder-san]

Nice thread, keep it up.

You can show the return values more clearly like:

Code:

Dim aByteArray As Byte() = IO.File.ReadAllBytes("C:\file.exe")
Dim aStringArray As String() = IO.File.ReadAllLines("C:\text.txt")
Dim aString As String = IO.File.ReadAllText("C:\text.txt")