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Calculating the checksum of a file in Visual Basic 2005

Hi,

Is there anyway to calculate a checksum (MD5, CRC32, etc) of files using
VB2005? What we need is a simple program that can go through a directory
and store the path and file name, checksum, and date.

Thanks ---

Alex
Sep 12 '07 #1
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Hi,

Is there anyway to calculate a checksum (MD5, CRC32, etc) of files using
VB2005? What we need is a simple program that can go through a directory
and store the path and file name, checksum, and date.

Thanks ---

Alex
Hello,

Nevermind on this, I found the following website which gave me exactly what
I was hunting for:
http://vbdotnetforum.com/index.php?showtopic=407

Take care --

Alex
Sep 12 '07 #2

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