Special Edition Using Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET

Chapter 24. Working with Files

In this chapter

Manipulating the File System Using VB

Working with File Streams

Parsing XML Files

Accessing the Registry

Traditional Visual Basic File Functions

Questions: Using Files

No matter what development language and platform you use, at some point you will probably need to write code that interacts with underlying operating system files. For example, you might need to copy files or launch another program. You can do all this interactively by using Windows Explorer or a Command Prompt window. As you will see in this chapter, you can accomplish these same file operations easily by using Visual Basic code.

Another use for files is the storage and retrieval of information. In other chapters, you learned how to use ...