VB.NET Language Pocket Reference

Name

SetAttr Procedure — Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileSystem

Synopsis

SetAttr(pathname, attributes)

pathname required; String

The name of the file or directory whose attributes are to be set

attributes required; FileAttribute enumeration

Numeric expression, FileAttribute enumerated constant, or global VB constant specifying the attributes

Description

Changes the attribute properties of a file.

You can use any sum of the following constants to set the attributes of a file:

Constant	Value	Description
VbNormal	0	Normal
VbReadOnly	1	Read-only
VbHidden	2	Hidden
VbSystem	4	System
VbArchive	32	File has changed since last backup

Each global constant has a corresponding constant in the FileAttribute enumeration. For example, vbNormal is identical to FileAttribute.Normal. The file-attribute constants vbDirectory, vbAlias, and vbVolume cannot be used when assigning attributes.

File-attributes constants can be Ored to set more than one attribute at the same time. For example:

SetAttr "SysFile.Dat", FileAttribute.System Or FileAttribute.Hidden