VB.NET How To Copy Move and Delete File

This tutorial is going to teach you how to Copy, Move and Delete a file from one location to another. For this we use System.IO.File property Copy, Move and Delete. This is very useful to interact with files stored in Hard Disk. In this example, for Copy and Move take input as specific location where you file stored like "D:\Test.txt" and destination location where we want to Paste or Move file like "D:\NewText.txt". In case of Delete only specific only where the file located to delete.

Public Sub FileCopy()

        Dim CopyFrom As String = "D:\Test.txt"
        Dim CopyTo As String = "D:\NewText.txt"

        If System.IO.File.Exists(CopyFrom) = True Then
            System.IO.File.Copy(CopyFrom, CopyTo)
            MsgBox("File Copied!")
        End If

End Sub


Public Sub FileMove()

        Dim MoveFrom As String = "D:\Test.txt"
        Dim MoveTo As String = "E:\Test.txt"

        If System.IO.File.Exists(MoveFrom) = True Then
            System.IO.File.Move(MoveFrom, MoveTo)
            MsgBox("File Moved!")
        End If

End Sub


Public Sub FileDelete()

        Dim DeleteFrom As String = "E:\Test.txt"

        If System.IO.File.Exists(DeleteFrom) = True Then
            System.IO.File.Delete(DeleteFrom)
            MsgBox("File Deleted!")
        End If

End Sub