To read all text at once
using System.IO;
string fileLocation= @"C:\myFile.txt";
string allText = File.ReadAllText(fileLocation);
To read line by line
using System.IO;
string fileLocation= @"C:\myFile.txt";
using (StreamReader streamReader = File.OpenText(fileLocation))
{
while (streamReader.Peek() >= 0)
{
Console.WriteLine(streamReader.ReadLine());
}
}