Learn how to enumerate the files and folders on a computer with LINQ, managing access exceptions along the way.
Latest VB Files Articles
Getting Past the 2 Gb File Limit
Take a closer look at the 2 Gb limit that we are plagued with in different languages, and how to get around them.
Anti-Aliased Image Transformation (Aaform)
Given an image and a quadralateral, Aaform will fit the image onto the quadraleteral passed using geometry.
Display the Browse For Folder Dialog
This BAS module allows you to display the 'Browse Folders' dialog with one function call. (Added: 20-Aug-1999)
Easy Method of Writing And Reading Small Text Files
Learn an easy way of reading and writing strings to individual text files in VB (Added: 12-May-1999)
Enumerating CD Devices on Your System
Learn how to determine all the CD-ROMdrives you have connected to your computer. (Added: 20-Jan-2000)
Latest Developer Videos
More...Latest CodeGuru Developer Columns
MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

Working with Hashtables in .NET
There are millions of Namespaces in the .NET Framework. Coming from a VB 6 background, I was accustomed to arrays and arrays only. Luckily all has changed with .NET, in that the .NET Framework supports Collections, which as its name implies, is a collection of objects that you can store in a certain manner.
Implementing a WCF Message Contract
WCF implementations normally take two different approaches; a Document style or an API style. Document style implementations are more flexible and often easier to extend and version. Also, Document style or rather, Message Contract service implementations, work well between systems with a shared message assembly. Jeffrey Juday guides you through architecting a WCF Message Contract implementation.