Einar,

As far as I see, there is a big difference, and this difference is critical.
VFP adir is two-dimentional array, and VFP asort may sort on any column in the array. Cannot see anything similar in VB.NET so far: it deals with one-dimentional array, and for file names only.

>Correct, but all the files (or elements in the array) has to be scanned in VFP also. The only difference is that it is cleverly hidden behind a function call (ASORT).
>Did you search CodeProject or any other sites for a way to do this (I am sure someone else has done something like this)?
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>>Probably it could be done this way, but to create the second array with dates, one needs to scan all files anyway.