Temporary Files And Directories in Visual Basic .NET

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Our program demonstrates how to work with temporary files and directories in Visual Basic .NET. Here’s the full source code:

Imports System
Imports System.IO

Module TemporaryFilesAndDirectories
    Sub Main()
        ' The easiest way to create a temporary file is by
        ' using Path.GetTempFileName(). It creates a file and
        ' returns its path. The file is created in the default
        ' temporary folder for our OS.
        Dim tempFilePath As String = Path.GetTempFileName()
        Console.WriteLine("Temp file name: " & tempFilePath)

        ' Clean up the file after we're done. The OS is
        ' likely to clean up temporary files by itself after
        ' some time, but it's good practice to do this
        ' explicitly.
        AddHandler AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ProcessExit, Sub() File.Delete(tempFilePath)

        ' We can write some data to the file.
        File.WriteAllBytes(tempFilePath, New Byte() {1, 2, 3, 4})

        ' If we intend to create many temporary files, we may
        ' prefer to create a temporary directory.
        ' Path.GetTempPath() returns the path to the temporary folder,
        ' and Path.GetRandomFileName() generates a random file name.
        Dim tempDirPath As String = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), Path.GetRandomFileName())
        Directory.CreateDirectory(tempDirPath)
        Console.WriteLine("Temp dir name: " & tempDirPath)

        ' Clean up the directory after we're done.
        AddHandler AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ProcessExit, Sub() Directory.Delete(tempDirPath, True)

        ' Now we can create temporary files in our temporary directory.
        Dim tempFilePath2 As String = Path.Combine(tempDirPath, "file1")
        File.WriteAllBytes(tempFilePath2, New Byte() {1, 2})
    End Sub
End Module

To run the program, save the code in a file with a .vb extension (e.g., TemporaryFilesAndDirectories.vb) and compile it using the Visual Basic .NET compiler:

$ vbc TemporaryFilesAndDirectories.vb
$ TemporaryFilesAndDirectories.exe
Temp file name: C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp1234.tmp
Temp dir name: C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Temp\qwerty12

This program demonstrates several key concepts:

Creating temporary files using Path.GetTempFileName().
Writing data to files using File.WriteAllBytes().
Creating temporary directories using Path.GetTempPath() and Path.GetRandomFileName().
Cleaning up temporary files and directories using File.Delete() and Directory.Delete().
Using AddHandler with AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ProcessExit to ensure cleanup when the program exits.

Note that the exact paths will differ depending on your system configuration.

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