Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET 2003 Kick Start

In Brief

This chapter provided an in-depth discussion of working with files. Here are the primary things that were discussed:

• Streams are a key concept in .NET programming. Streams are used for read and write access to files, network streams, memory buffers, and more.

• The classes in the System.IO namespace, including File, Path, and Directory, contain shared methods that allow you to access and manipulate the file system.

• Structured exception handling replaces the On Error model for catching errors at runtime. Used correctly, it can be much more powerful than Visual Basic 6.0's On Error.

• Multiple Catch blocks in a Try…Catch allow for granular handling of exceptions. The first matching Catch block handles the exception and the rest are skipped. It ...