Directories and Files Summary 

Visual Basic language keywords and run-time library members are organized by purpose and use.

Using the My feature gives you greater productivity and performance in file I/O operations than using these members. For more information, see My.Computer.FileSystem Object.

Action	Language element
Change a directory or folder.	ChDir
Change the drive.	ChDrive
Copy a file.	FileCopy
Make a directory or folder.	MkDir
Remove a directory or folder.	RmDir
Rename a file, directory, or folder.	Rename
Return the current path.	CurDir
Return a file's date/time stamp.	FileDateTime
Return file, directory, or label attributes.	GetAttr
Return a file's length.	FileLen
Return a file's name or volume label.	Dir
Set attribute information for a file.	SetAttr

See Also

Reference

Keywords and Members by Task
Visual Basic Language Keywords
Visual Basic Run-Time Library Members
Keywords Compared in Different Languages

Concepts

Parsing Text Files with the TextFieldParser Object

Other Resources

Reading from Files in Visual Basic
Writing to Files in Visual Basic
Creating, Deleting, and Moving Files and Directories in Visual Basic
File, Directory, and Drive Properties in Visual Basic