RmDir Function 

Removes an existing directory.

The My feature gives you greater productivity and performance in file I/O operations than RmDir. For more information, see My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteDirectory Method.

Public Sub RmDir(ByVal Path As String)

Parameters

• Path
  Required. String expression that identifies the directory or folder to be removed. Path can include the drive. If no drive is specified, RmDir removes the directory on the current drive.

Exceptions

Exception type	Error number	Condition
ArgumentException	52	Path is not specified or is empty.
IOException	75	Target directory contains files.
FileNotFoundException	76	Directory does not exist.

See the "Error number" column if you are upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 applications that use unstructured error handling. (You can compare the error number against the Number Property (Err Object).) However, when possible, you should consider replacing such error control with Structured Exception Handling Overview for Visual Basic.

Remarks

An error occurs if you try to use RmDir on a directory containing files. Use the Kill function to delete all files before attempting to remove a directory.

Example

This example uses the RmDir function to remove an existing directory.

' Assume that MYDIR is an empty directory.
' Remove MYDIR.
RmDir("MYDIR")

Smart Device Developer Notes

This function is not supported.

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualBasic

Module: FileSystem

Assembly: Visual Basic Runtime Library (in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll)

See Also

Tasks

How to: Delete a Directory in Visual Basic

Reference

ChDir Function
CurDir Function
Kill Function
MkDir Function
ArgumentException Class
IOException Class
FileNotFoundException Class