Description: This article explains you how to harness the .NET Framework classes to handle data stored in disk files.Up through and including VB6, the programming syntax for working with disk files and directories remained largely intact since the days of GW-BASIC. (Do you remember the first time you coded an OPEN "xx" FOR INPUT?) The .NET Framework gives us classes that provide all the functionality we've always had to read and write files–but adds features and a proper object interface. In this article, you learn how to harness .NET's tools to handle data stored in disk files.
