I got to spend the other day with a local customer that was making the shift to .NET. They were in the process of doing some prototyping their current application. They actually had a small VB application that was responsible for searching a local file share and returning a list of files that matched the search and their sizes. I put together the following snippet that I thought was interesting.

Imports System.IO

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

        Dim File

        Dim Files() As fileinfo

        Dim DirInfo As New DirectoryInfo("c:\")

        Files = DirInfo.GetFiles("*.txt")

        ' display names

        For Each File In Files

            MsgBox("Name: " & File.Name)

            MsgBox("Size: " & File.length.ToString)

        Next

    End Sub

**Note**

The GetFiles operator accepts either the “?” or “*” search wildcards.

11:10:16 PM