VB.NET 2003 Articles for VB.NET 2005 ??

[Freddie Code]

Coming from VB6, I'm jumping straight to Visual Studio VB.NET 2005 Express (skipping VB.NET 2003). When I search this site or the Web for VB.NET 2005 article or sample code I get a lot of hits for VB.NET 2003 articles and code. 1) Can I assume that articles and code for VB.NET 2003 will work in VB.NET 2005? 2) I'm particularly interested in File and Directory manipulation. Reading all file names in a directory tree, changing their names, creating directories, copying, deleting etc. Does VB.NET 2005 have significant improvements/changes in this area over VB.NET 2003? Thanks.

[Duncan Edwards Jones]

A lot of the VB.Net articles use code that is not compatible with VB2003 (such as generic collections and the like) but it is not usually too much trouble to convert it back to 2003 (and even - shock, horror) VB2002.

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[Kevin McFarlane]

Freddie Code wrote:

Can I assume that articles and code for VB.NET 2003 will work in VB.NET 2005?

In most cases, yes. ASP.NET is potentially more problematic though. Best thing to do is work with the 2003 articles and then search MSDN for what's changed between 2003 and 2005.

Kevin