Hi Mitchb00,
Previous VB method? Can you share with us for a better support, and I'm sorry that currently the code center does not have VB samples, but the code for win8 app should also work fine.
And I don't think you can directly copy files to your Desktop by code unless you use
FileSavePicker class.
--James
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