> On May 18, 3:48 am, Jim Madsen <jus***@nobody.com> wrote:
>
> > How do I copy subfolders from one directory to another.  I tried
> > "moveto", but that only moves the subfolders.  I only see "copyto" for
> > files.
>
> > Sorry about the novice question.  I have VB dotNet 2003.
>
> To copy a folder including its subfolders recursively, you can use:
>
> My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory
>
> See here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2swy9y5e(VS.80).aspx
>
> Onur Güzel

"Mike Williams" <M***@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in message
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>> An application which made use of functionality included
>> in the VB5 runtime didn't run on a system which had
>> only the VB4 runtime installed.
>
> Yes, but the VB5 runtime (and the VB6 runtime) are both less than 2 MB and
> are, as far as I am aware, present by default on all standard
> installations of Win XP upwards and are in any case easily
> redistributable. You certainly cannot say the same for the various
> variants of the net framework!
>
>> In .NET, there is even some kind of cross-version compatibility.
>> An application compiled against .NET Framework n will run on
>> systems which have .NET Framework m (m >= n) installed,
>> and it may run on systems which only have .NET Framework
>> o (o < n) installed if only the subset of functionality provided
>> by the "older" version of the .NET Framework is used by the application.
>> Nevertheless, there are some exceptions to
>> these rules.
>
> What you have just described is a complete mess. I would much sooner be
> clear on exactly what is required and have a definite "No" instead of  all
> this "maybe, possibly, yes but only if . . ." stuff. We were promised that
> dotnet would fix all the Classic Visual Basic "DLL Hell" for us, but
> instead it has just made matters worse. I was rather hoping for a system
> such as I believe Delphi to be (or perhaps to have been before they too
> moved down the dotnet road) where in Delphi you could compile an app and
> the compiled exe would be completely self contained and would run on
> whatever machine you threw it at (at least that's how I understood Delphi
> to have worked). But Micro$oft have not done that. They have replaced DLL
> Hell with an even worse Hell in which everyone in the world has to rely on
> a fast broadband connection to the Micro$oft servers for anything to work
> at all! I suppose that is to be expected from a company that is heading
> full speed down the road to what they believe is their own rental heaven,
> but it really is very disappointing.
>
> Mike
>
>

> On May 18, 8:25 pm, Onur Güzel <kimiraikkone***@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On May 18, 3:48 am, Jim Madsen <jus***@nobody.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How do I copy subfolders from one directory to another.  I tried
>>> "moveto", but that only moves the subfolders.  I only see "copyto" for
>>> files.
>>> Sorry about the novice question.  I have VB dotNet 2003.
>> To copy a folder including its subfolders recursively, you can use:
>>
>> My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory
>>
>> See here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2swy9y5e(VS.80).aspx
>>
>> Onur Güzel
>
> Note: That feature under My namespace is provided in .NET 2.0 and
> above, as you're using .NET 1.1 with VS 2003, you may need a custom
> function that does it using System.IO.
>
> Maybe:
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/CopyFiles.aspx
>
> HTH,
>
> Onur Güzel
>