Creating, Deleting, and Moving Files and Directories in Visual Basic

This section lists tasks associated with creating, deleting, moving, and renaming files and directories in Visual Basic.

In This Section

• How to: Copy Files with a Specific Pattern to a Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to copy files with a specific file name pattern, such as only .txt files, to a directory.

• How to: Create a Copy of a File in the Same Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to create a copy of a file in the same directory.

• How to: Create a Copy of a File in a Different Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to copy a file to another directory.

• How to: Create a File in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to create a file.

• How to: Delete a File in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to delete a file.

• How to: Delete All Files in a Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to delete all the files in a specific directory.

• How to: Find Files with a Specific Pattern in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to list only files with a specific file name pattern in a directory.

• How to: Move a File in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to move a file to a different directory.

• How to: Move a Collection of Files in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to move multiple files to a different directory.

• How to: Rename a File in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to rename a file.

• How to: Rename a Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to rename a directory.

• How to: Copy a Directory to Another Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to copy a directory to another location.

• How to: Create a Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to create a directory.

• How to: Delete a Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to delete a directory.

• How to: Find Subdirectories with a Specific Pattern in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to list directories with a specific pattern in their name.

• How to: Get the Collection of Files in a Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to list the files in a directory.

• How to: Determine How Many Files Are in a Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to determine how many files are in a directory.

• How to: Move a Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to move a directory.

• How to: Move the Contents of a Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to move the contents of a directory.

• How to: Retrieve the Contents of the My Documents Directory in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to read from special directories.

• How to: Parse File Paths in Visual Basic
  Demonstrates how to use My methods to combine file paths.

Reference

• FileSystem
  Describes the My.Computer.FileSystem object and its members.

• CombinePath
  Describes the CombinePath method.

• CopyDirectory
  Describes the CopyDirectory method.

• CopyFile
  Describes the CopyFile method.

• CreateDirectory
  Describes the CreateDirectory method.

• DeleteDirectory
  Describes the DeleteDirectory method.

• DeleteFile
  Describes the DeleteFile method.

• GetParentPath
  Describes the GetParentPath method.

• MoveDirectory
  Describes the MoveDirectory method.

• MoveFile
  Describes the MoveFile method.

• RenameDirectory
  Describes the RenameDirectory method.

• RenameFile
  Describes the RenameFile method.

• SpecialDirectories
  Describes the SpecialDirectories object.

Related Sections

• Reading from Files in Visual Basic
  Lists tasks associated with reading from files.

• Writing to Files in Visual Basic
  Lists tasks involving writing to files.

• File, Directory, and Drive Properties in Visual Basic
  Lists tasks associated with getting and setting file, directory, and drive properties.