Visual basic functions Equivalent of FSO

[Jeet2004]

Is it a correct statemnt that FSO is basically for scripting purposes and shoudl be avoided in visual basic and visual basic functions shoudl be used instead.

Are there any equivalent functions existing in vb6.0 to replace FSO???

Just wanted to know so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[johnwm]

FSO contains many useful features for filehandling, and works fine under VB6. It is considerable overkill to use FSO if you only need Dir, Name or Kill functionality

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[bjd4jc]

Although I would agree that it is overkill, if you are familiar with it then I don't see anything wrong with using it in VB6. It is a component that is available on most [modern] computers so that is really not an issue... In my opinion it is not bad practice to use it in VB especially if that is what you already know how to use... (not that I am advocating not learning something new)

 

[chiph]

Just don't try and use FSO to read/write Unicode files. It doesn't do that particularly well.

Chip H.


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[Jeet2004]

what are some of the equivalent function in VB.
If you can direct me to some faq or thread or url that would be really great

 

[BobRodes]

<what are some of the equivalent function in VB.

See johnwm's post.

<If you can direct me to some faq or thread or url that would be really great

http://www.google.com

Try entering "VB6 Kill Statement", etc.

Bob

 

[zarney]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...us/vbcon98/html/vbconfolderfileprocessing.asp