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

Reference

Visual Basic Runtime Library Members

Keywords Compared in Various Languages

Concepts

Parsing Text Files with the TextFieldParser Object (Visual Basic)

Other Resources

Keywords (Visual Basic)

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