My understanding is that the classes in the My namespace are partly meant as a crutch to new developers (possibly with a VB6 background) that finds the .Net framework a bit overwhelming. If they made the My namespace too big, I think it would defeat that purpose of being easier to find things in. I would also assume that they probably had limited resources to build that namespace and had to be quite selective.

The solution is for you to do as you've done and write your own method, which you could then put in a class library or similar together with other helpful helper functions that you can then easily include in all your projects.

Btw, remember that dir.Delete(True) can throw exceptions as well.

My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteDirectory() with read only files?
There was the following sentence in Time magazine’s a bit old  article (December 11, 2013) titled, “Pope Francis, the people’s Pope,” in which I was drawn to the phrase, “sign the final flourish”: 


  “He returned o Buenos Aires and looked to retirement. - - He handed
  his letter of resignation to the Pope when he turned 75 in 2011.”I’m
  starting to consider the fact that I have to leave everything behind,”
  he said in 2010. “It makes me want to be fair with everyone always, to
  sign the final flourish ... But death is my thought every day.” He
  insisted he was not sad, and he went on posing for pictures with the
  faithful.”
  
  http://poy.time.com/2013/12/11/person-of-the-year-pope-francis-the-peoples-pope/


I thought “sign the flourish” an idiom, but I don’t find the phrase in dictionaries I use to consult, or on Google.”  

I wondered if it’s similar with Japanese idiom, “一花咲かせる－hitohana sakaseru” meaning to bloom the last blossoms at the ending, at the last stage of one's career, or before retiring, like a baseball player who passed his peak hitting a streak of homeruns before retiring, but then, the word, “sign” seems to be incongruent.

Or, does “sign the flourish” mean “sign by using decorated-letters”?

What does the phrase, Pope wanted to “sign the final flourish” mean?
