Locating (Selecting) Folder Within Its Parent Directory
Feb 1, 2012
Let me say that I have 'f' as a file/folder path.
Dim f As String = C:UsersTom BluewaterMusic
Dim d As String = Path.GetDirectoryName(f)
Is it possible to locate f within its parent directory (d) as shown in the picture below? I know that you can open its parent directory like the following.
Process.Start("explorer.exe", Path.GetDirectoryName(f))
And that's not exactly what I want. In this case, the Music folder won't be selected. I could search this place for a clue. But there was no hit. It seems that the search function doesn't always work here.
I am trying to select a folder from an initial directory and store the initial directory with the selected directory in Folder1Dir. Also not sure how to dimension OpenFileDialog1.
I have some problem with copying the file from one Directory to another directory by create the folder if that folder is not exists in destination directory.
how to copy, delete, show files, show current directory, change directory, make folder, rename folder. My problem is i have a method on deleting a file and copying a file, but i don't know how to pass the method so that when i click the delete button it would let me choose what file to delete. By the way im using buttons on each function.[code...]
When I select a node from treeview, it correctly shows the child form. However, when I close the child form and select the same node from the parent form, nothing happens.
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I need to get the location/name of the directory that contains my application. I know I can get location of my app using My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath but I don't know how to get the directory above this. I can of course mess around with String.Split etc.. but I don't think that is necessary.
copying the file from one Directory to another directory by create the folder if that folder is not exists in destination directory.Example:
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Heres the code im using to select images from a directory , i also have a timer delay between each image , but my problem is when i start my app , it start by selectind image 1 (Images are numbered 1-15) but i want to select the images randomly ?
Private Declare Auto Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal uAction As Integer, ByVal uParam As Integer, ByVal lpvParam As String, ByVal fuWinIni As Integer) As Integer
I am using vb.net with visual studio 2008. I have the need to have a user select a directory on a network drive to bring up a folder with a very extensive list of files. The file names within this directory are what I'm concerned with and I will need to write all these file names to a textfile in order to do a comparison with an existing text file. The user must be able to select this folder themselvesAt this point I am trying to use the openfiledialog box to open the folder however it is requiring that I select a specific file which is not my need. I need the whole folder.
I currently have a filter that is allowing all files. fdlg.Filter = "All files (*.*)|*.*|All (*.*) |*.*
I'm running in to a bit of a strange error with an application I'm writing. I have a number of shortcuts on my computer desktop that take me to my various folders (documents, music, etc) and have always been able to navigate using them when I open a file through applications such as Word. However when I use an OpenFileDialog box in VB.NET and select one of these shortcuts to take me to the file I'm after I am getting the following error message...
I have a file search that I want the user to select the folder they are searching the file in. At the moment I have If Check.Text = "Correct" Then If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists("C:Systemsfile.txt") Then 1CheckBox.Checked() = True Else 1CheckBox.Checked = False End If
However this check will be used for various files and its not usable if the FileExists directory stays the same ie searching the same folder and file for different records. I have a FolderBrowseDialog that I want the user to select the folder first in where to search and then within this chosen folder the static file will be checked. I have this as my folderbrowsedialog:
Dim Browser As New FolderBrowserDialog Browser.Description = "Please select ." Browser.ShowNewFolderButton = False Browser.RootFolder = "c:" Browser.SelectedPath = "c:windows" If Browser.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then Me.text.Text = Browser.SelectedPath End If
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I'm trying to select the files and folders inside a folder to zip up, but what it seems to be doing is selecting all the folders up to the folder i've selected and the files in the final folder but not the folders in there and zipping them up. So for example in tbFolder I have the string: "C:Users ombDesktopDeOldMota7" I want to select this folder and zip up the entire contents of this folder, images and all. But whats happening is the following:
Its creating the folder structure up to the folder i want zipped and adding just the files in side this and not the folders. I'm guessing I need to tweak the line:
System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(DirectoryToZip)
Here is the entire code:
Private Sub btnCreate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCreate.Click Dim ZipFile As String = "C:Releases" & drpService.Text & "-" &
I am writing a mini folder compare program to compare files in 2 folders .
I have sort of completed writing the application just that i dont know how to code for one particular part which is getting and comparing files in subfolder ( which mean my application doesnt goes into sub folder to get files name only the parent folder )
Imagine i have Folder A : with 3 files and a sub folder with 3 files
Folder B : 3 same files and a sub folder with 3 files
With the below code it only get the 3 files at the parent folder , How can i code to get the files in sub folders too ?
Private Sub chooseFirstFolder _ ( _ ByVal sender As System.Object, _
I successfully retrieve a user (call it userA) from Active Directory that exists in Domain A in the users subdirectory. I then try to remove the user from AD by doing
dim theParent as DirectoryEntry = userA.Parent theParent.children.Remove(usera)
This fails because when I look at the parent node in a Watch Window in Visual Studio, all of its members say COMInterop.Exception.
I have downloaded a program for moving files and it accepts visual basic instructions. I want to down a level all the files from multiples subdirectories to its parent directory. Example:
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And I want to have all the files in just one directory, like this:
I am trying to download a file into a directory. Basically when the user presses a button the code will make a folder and download a file into that folder. I want to make that folder inside an Atari Program Files. It Reads "C:Program FilesAtariRollerCoaster Tyccon 3 PlatinumCars..Inside the cars directory i want to make a folder but when i try it fails. but when i change the whole path to my desktop it doesn't fail.
i am trying to download a folder into a directory. A few days ago Acamar helped me by giving me some code but i get an error when trying to download certain folders. I was wondering if their was a way to fully download an unzipped folder to a path that is in textbox1.
What i would like to do, is have it load up with the settings for the users desktop.here's what i'm trying to do..when first loading a new settings file, a label with a directory as "C:Users rujadeDesktop" is created. if i install the app on a foreign p.c., when running the program for the first time, it loads the label with "C:Users rujadeDesktop". i'm trying to figure out how to load it with the user's desktop directory instead.[code]...
I've been working on some code to rename files and have being doing so by copying them to the same location under a different name and then removing the original. When I do this for files I use the code ...
Dim file As New System.IO.FileInfo(lstFiles.SelectedItem.ToString) Dim strNewFile As String Dim strRename As String Dim strMask As String = ""
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This will obviously not work as it will try to copy the folder into itself which is not allowed.
I want to search a directory and get all the names of the "Folders" within that directory and place them into a string array. Note: No Files just folders
