The basic file-handling commands had not changed; just a few more features had been added. With Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft introduced a new, object-oriented method for working with files.

In Visual Basic, the code to define a static method looks like this: Public Class Utilities Public Shared Sub CreateFile() End Sub End Class If you need to pass values between class methods, you can ...

Fortunately, Visual Basic can handle strings with true escape characters, albeit with the help of the .NET regular expression library. The Regex.Unescape method accepts a string with backslash-powered ...