Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

The System.IO.Directory Class

To access directories you take advantage of the System.IO.Directory class that offers shared members that allow performing common operations on folders. All members are self-explanatory. For example, you can check if a directory already exists and, if not, create a new one as follows:

The Move method allows moving a directory from one location to another; it takes two arguments, the source directory name and the target name:

Directory.Move("C:\Test", "C:\Demo")

If the target directory already exists, an IOException is thrown. You can easily get or set attribute information for directories invoking special methods. ...