FileSystem.CreateDirectory(String) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

Source:: FileSystem.vb

Source:: FileSystem.vb

Source:: FileSystem.vb

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Creates a directory.

public:
 static void CreateDirectory(System::String ^ directory);

public static void CreateDirectory (string directory);

static member CreateDirectory : string -> unit

Public Shared Sub CreateDirectory (directory As String)

Parameters

directory: String

Name and location of the directory.

Exceptions

ArgumentException

The directory name is malformed. For example, it contains illegal characters or is only white space.

ArgumentNullException

directory is Nothing or an empty string.

PathTooLongException

The directory name is too long.

NotSupportedException

The directory name is only a colon (:).

IOException

The parent directory of the directory to be created is read-only.

UnauthorizedAccessException

The user does not have permission to create the directory.

Examples

This example creates the directory, NewDirectory, in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents.

My.Computer.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(
  "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\NewDirectory")

Remarks

If the directory already exists, no exception is thrown.

The following table lists an example of a task involving the My.Computer.FileSystem.CreateDirectory method.

To	See
Create a directory	How to: Create a Directory in Visual Basic

Applies to