Chapter 5. Files and Directories
Previous versions of Microsoft Visual Basic have always been underweight when it came to file management. Most Visual Basic 6.0 programmers used legacy functions such as Open and Input that were built into the language and identified files using numbers. More adventurous developers could use the File Scripting Objects (FSO) model, which provided an object-oriented way to manipulate files, but lacked important features such as the ability to read and write binary files. In Microsoft .NET, the story is completely different—for the first time, Visual Basic developers have a rich set of objects that allow them to retrieve file system information, move and rename files and directories, create text and binary files, ...
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