Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference

MY.COMPUTER.FILESYSTEM

The My.Computer.FileSystem object provides tools for working with drives, directories, and files. The following table summarizes this object’s properties.

PROPERTY	DESCRIPTION
CurrentDirectory	Gets or sets the fully qualified path to the application’s current directory.
Drives	Returns a read-only collection of DriveInfo objects describing the system’s drives.
SpecialDirectories	Returns a SpecialDirectoriesProxy object that has properties giving the locations of various special directories (such as the system’s temporary directory and the user’s MyDocuments directory). See the following section “My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories” for more information.

The following list describes the My.Computer.FileSystem object’s methods:

METHOD	PURPOSE
CombinePath	Combines a base path with a relative path reference and returns a properly formatted fully qualified path. For example, the following code displays the name of the directory that is the parent of the application’s current directory: MessageBox.Show(My.Computer.FileSystem.CombinePath (My.Computer.FileSystem.CurrentDirectory(), "..").
CopyDirectory	Copies a directory. Parameters indicate whether to overwrite existing files, whether to display a progress indicator, and what to do if the user presses Cancel during the operation.
CopyFile	Copies a file. Parameters indicate whether to overwrite existing files, whether to display a progress indicator, and what to do if the user presses ...