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Help with renaming in xml file using vb.net

Hi,

How do you rename an xml file in the applications's folder using vb.net?

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Victor

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Jacques Bourgeois (James Burger)

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Wayne Taylor (webtubbs)

You can also use File.Move.

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Fernando Soto

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Jacques Bourgeois (James Burger)

Personally, I never recommend My.Computer. This is only a shortcut provided for amateur VB programmers, to facilitate the move from VB classic to VB.NET.

Although it is an easy way out for the most common commands, it is a lot more limited than directly using the framework classes. For instance, the framework offers 5 classes to deal with files, directories and drives. My.Computer.FileSystem combines features from these 5 classes, but has less methods than each of the System.IO classes individually. The System.IO classes are thus a lot more powerful.

Also, My does not exist in other languages, it is a VB only feature. Taking the habit of using the "real" .NET classes instead of the wrapper that My will make it easier to eventually move to another language, because System.IO is available in every .NET language, while My exists only in VB.

Victor Charles

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Hi,
Thank you forr all the comments.
Victor

Fernando Soto

Please close the question.

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Victor Charles

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Thank You.