>Einar,
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>I need to follow the IT standard for the company, which is VB.NET at the moment. In VB.NET as far as I see, the GetFiles() allows to create a one-dimensional array and with file names only. But I need file dates to sort the list. Am I missing anything here?

Yuri,
I see. I thought GetFiles() returned a file object and not just a string. You said your current VB.NET code takes several minutes per directory. Could you post your code? Maybe I can find a way to speed it up. Are you using GetLastWriteTime()? It seems pretty snappy to me but then I only have 28 files in the directory I tested :)