Working with Files

Up until lesson we are only creating programs that could accept data at runtime, when the program is terminated, the data also disappear. Is it possible to save data accepted by a VB program into a storage device, such as a hard disk or diskette, or even CDRW? The answer is possible. In this chapter, we will learn how to create files by writing them into a storage device and then retrieve the data by reading the contents of the files using a customized VB program.