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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008
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Mastering Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

by Evangelos Petroutsos
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
1152 pages
33h 45m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 15. Accessing Folders and Files

Files have always been an important aspect of programming. We use files to store data, and in many cases we have to manipulate files and folders from within applications. I need not give examples: Just about any application that allows user input must store its data to a file (ormultiple files) for later retrieval — databases excluded, of course.

Manipulating files and folders is quite common, too. Organizing files into folders and processing files en masse are two typical examples. I recently ran into a few web-related tasks that are worth mentioning here. A program for placing watermarks on pictures was the first. A watermark is a graphic that's placed over an image to indicate its origin. The watermark ...

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