Find the size of a file in VB.NET

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Introduction

In this article , I am going to describe the steps to find the size of a file using VB.NET.

Using the code

We need to find the size of a file. We can get the information about the file using the 'FileInfo'  class in VB.NET. The 'FileInfo'  class belongs to the 'System.IO' Namespace.

So we need to import the particular namespace using the following line in our script

Imports System.IO

We can make use of the 'FileInfo' to get the size of the file.

Dim MyFile As New FileInfo(MyFilePath)
Dim FileSize As Long = MyFile.Length
Return FileSize

Where MyFile is the object of the class 'FileInfo' . The 'Length' property of the 'FileInfo'  class will give the size of the file.

In the following code , we just need to input the full path to the file, whose size is to find out.

Imports System.IO Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Dim myfilename as string = “C:\Test\Ajax.doc” Dim myFilesize as Integer = GetFileSize(myfilename) MessageBox.Show(“File Size is” + myFilesize.toString) End sub Private Function GetFileSize(ByVal MyFilePath As String) As Long Dim MyFile As New FileInfo(MyFilePath) Dim FileSize As Long = MyFile.Length Return FileSize End Function End Class

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