Directories and Files Summary (Visual Basic)

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 FileSystem.

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

• Keywords
• Visual Basic Runtime Library Members
• Reading from Files
• Writing to Files
• Creating, Deleting, and Moving Files and Directories
• Parsing Text Files with the TextFieldParser Object