How to write out a text stream in VB.NET

Hi,

I want to write out a text stream in VB.NET and I tried this approach. The system doesn't like it because I am trying to write a character to a byte stream

Sub writeMyFile(ByVal path As String, ByVal content As String)
        Dim i As Long
        Dim myWriter As New System.IO.FileStream(path, IO.FileMode.Create)
        For i = 0 To content.Length - 1
                  myWriter.WriteByte(content.Chars(i))
        Next
        myWriter.Close()
    End Sub
end sub