This step-by-step article shows you how to do six basic file input/output (I/O) operations in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 or in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. If you are new to .NET, you will find that the object model for file operations in .
FileSystemObject provides a non-hierarchical structure to manipulate, read, and create ASCII and Unicode text files. This structure is very different from the hierarchical structure of the original implementation of File I/O in Visual Basic....