title: VB.NET - Working with tab delimited text file
body: <p>I need help with how to work on text file (like database).</p>
  
  <p>I create excel GUI (with macro's), that search imputed string in sheets with lots of data and display entire row with matching string (for people with installed MS office)</p>
  
  <p>Now I must create alternative VB.Net application working only on tab delimited text files (without ADO.Net) for people who haven't installed MS office, and I don't know how start to work with it.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>import them? if yes, then how.</li>
  <li>working directly on them? if yes, then how.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>My text files is exported excels files/sheets to tab delimited .txt, with loots of columns (100+) with headers, and lots of rows 500+</p>
  
  <p>need help :)
  thx</p>