I get the directories like this:[code..]
However, it returns all directories even system hidden ones.It seems that this just follows what I set in Windows for file and folder browsing, since I set the Windows to show all files, I think it's also showing all folders to me, I am not sure however.
I just want NOT to get the system directories like Recycle Bin and System Volume Information, how to do that?
I'm running VB .NET 2005, and need to get the windows directory. I am aware of My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories, but it doesn't have either the Windows directory or the Windows/System directory.
So, how do I get the windows and system directories?
System.UnauthorizedAccessException was unhandled. I'm following motcom's tutorial on creating a simple directory explorer, and everytime I try to expand I get the error above. How can I be getting that error on my own computer ? I'm on my administrator account, it happens even if I compile it and run it as administrator also. What could be causuing this ?
View 1 RepliesI get the following error message when i try to copy a directory using folder dialogue to get the path, into a predestined path. The code is as follows:
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I have a textbox that is used to add directories to a system folder, each name seperated by a line. If the textbox has text value "Test " that is "Test" & controlchars.newline & "" (not like this is coded, it's typed in), then if i use loop for each part as string in textbox1.text.split(controlchars.newline), the first part will be "Test", the second part will say " " when i run step by step debugger, but if i try and block the addition of a folder by "if part = " "" it does not catch it. I've tried comparing part to "", " ", nothing (which is illogical anyways), and i even tried creating a boolean variable equal to the statment to try and catch it but the program insists that part is not " " even though the debugger tells me that is the value of part.
View 9 RepliesThis is currently the code I am using.
Dim fileList As Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection(Of String) = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(FolderDialog1.SelectedPath, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly)
For Each topLvlFile As String In fileList
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The above code reads all the files & directories in a selected path. It ignores any hidden folders, like it suppose to. Except it doesn't ignore folders inside of the hidden folders that it finds & I need it to.I can't quite wrap my head around how to make it ignore all folders & files inside of a hidden folder that it find.
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it just creates 1 folder but not other folders with in folder.
I need to list all files folders, subfolders and subfolder files under a selected directory in a list box not sure how to do the logic in the last amount of code lines to enumerate all subfolders dna files.Here is what I have so far:
Dim OldProfileDir As String
Dim NewProfileDir As String
Dim Newdocs As String = ""
Dim Olddocs As String = ""
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Basically I'm going to try and develop a software that merges PDFs automatically using the PDFSharp API.What I want in the program is to basically that: Have the program to give and Input and Output directoryMerge all the documents in the directory or sub-directoryRename the merged PDF file according the the name of the directory/sub-directoryIf the folder has PDF files and a Sub-Directory I want to merge the PDF files in the folder and rename them as per the main folder, and rename the files in the sub-folder according to its name (i.e. seperate|)
It's the first time I'm using an API.The problem I have is how to use the directories and sub-directories as I need them.
how to list all subfolders in vb.net. i want to put it on a listbox, i have created a code but it only search on the current location, and does not include subfolder. here is my code,,
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
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I need a code. How i can to verify if files of txt exist ? I have a txt file with a directory on each line and I want to verify for all of them. Example:
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I'm trying to make a simple program to list a directory and sub directories on an ftp. I haven't found anything simple to do this other than a dll made for ftp commands. There are two problems with that dll, the first is I can't get recursing through directories to work right and it has a trial period. So I'm wondering if there is a simple pure VB way to simply list directories on an ftp. The dll I've played with is ChilkatDotNet2.dll.
View 4 RepliesI am now convinced there is no such thing using VB 2010 Express. I have read, re-read, studied, copied and pasted code to no end and all I get are error messages galore. It appears there is a big gap between what's on line as far as tutorials and the code that VB 2010 Express will accept. I hate to sound so lost but at the moment I am. I used to program in BASIC and QBASIC. I was a master at opening up ascii text files, reading them in sequential order, sorting, manipulating, then re-writing them. It was all so easy, like this: [code] That's all I want to learn how to do for the moment. But every tutorial or article I find goes off in to wild tangents about How to Manage Directories or it reads the entire text file into one giant object. Or worse, there's some code which looks promising but it won't run under VB 2010 Express or it might run but the author leaves out important parts of the code that have to be declared ahead of the subroutine....you all know what I mean. It can't be this difficult to just read a text file one line at a time, therefore it shouldn't be so difficult to find an accurate and up to date article on this.This is for really rough programming. I don't need an interface of any kind. The user, will not even need to know that anything is happening. I simply want to read text files, manipulate what's in them and then re-write the edited text.
View 5 RepliesDoes anyone know a way to get a list of UNC servers (A.K.A. items in the "Network" system folder in windows vista +, or "My Network Places" in win xp -), and get a list of shared files for a particular server?
When I try to get directories using System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories("\"), it says I need to put it in the form of \UNC serverFile share
how can i add image directories using List Of(T). I can only know to add integers, strings e.t.c
View 4 RepliesI have put together an app to monitor several directories. The basic principle is to replicate from a Master directory to a Shared directory when specific criteria is met (specific file types are changed, renamed or deleted within the Master directory)Everything seems to work fine with excpetion to MS Office documents. e.g. If I work on a .bmp and save it, it will trigger a changed event. However, with office documents (Word in this example), it appears to rename the MYDOC.DOC file to <freefile>.TMP then rename a different <freefile>.TMP to MYDOC.DOC. This would not be a problem if it was to trigger the Changed or Created event for MYDOC.DOC, but it doesn't. It wouldn't be so bad if the first TMP file was named the same as the second TMP file as I could mirror the process using the Renamed event.I can not filter out TMP files as we use TMP files within the Master directory, albeit for a different purpose.I would use an off the shelf produt, but the files need to be copied to different shared directories based on specific criteria so I can not seem to find a suitable product that fits my needs.
View 1 Repliesi am having a problem in writing the code that checks whether a directory exists or not in FTP using vb.net..
View 3 RepliesI need to check files in one directory that end in 'ilk' and compare it to another directory with files that end in 'txt'. If the file name matches (with the exception of the extension), then I want to delete the file that ends with 'ilk'.
View 7 RepliesReferencing this question/code:
How do I copy a folder and all subfolders and files in .NET?
I'm trying to copy a buntch of sub directories to a different directory. I'm wanting to update this code:
Dim fso As System.Object = New System.Object
fso = CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject")
fso.copyfolder(sour, dest)
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Is there a easier way of doing this with less lines of code like the fso As System.Object version? Also, I have System.IO imported however File.Copy and Directory.GetFiles are not colored blue, could this be the issue? I have the System loaded as a reference.
I need to count the numers of directories in a folder( by path ) How can i do that? should i just add something to this?:
Dim path As String = Application.StartupPath & "\Bin\"
Dim sf As String
For Each sf In Directory.GetDirectories(path)
Next
In all directories on disk is a specific subdirectory which i want to delete on regular basis. Is there a way to do this in a script.
View 2 RepliesI want my to create an explorer like application. What control should i use to show the contents of a directory.I tried listview and listbox. Unfortunately i was unable to add items in a listview using the function getdirectories("D:")I managed to do so with listbox control. But how can i distinguish whether the selected entry is a file or a directory. Code snippet is given below :
Private Sub ListBox1_DoubleClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ListBox1.DoubleClick
<strong>sel = ListBox1.SelectedItem</strong>
ListBox1.Items.Clear()
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I want that if thesel is file, then it'll be open in its default application,i.e. using system.process.start(sel.filetype).Else if sel is a directory then the directory will open.
I want to enumerate all the directories in C: and also at the end of it I want the size. Now, I can enumerate the directories but I have no idea how to get the size.
I have the code here but everytime I try and add My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileinfo it bombs out saying that I have not expressed it. I suppose I need to add a variable for my.computer.filesystem.getfileinfo but how do I add two variables in one for each statement.I guess I could declare it outside the "for each" statement.[code]...
I'm learning VB and having a few problems with getting a list of all folders/directories on the system. I'm using the code included here and it seems to work until it hits the recycle bin folder, and some other system folders..[code]
View 2 RepliesI want to create multiple directories using VB.NET. All I am trying to read a text file which holds all the paths and file names some thing like:
c: est.txt
d: est est.txt
The code which I tried o write down is:
If File.Exists(fileLoc) Then
Dim objReader As New StreamReader(fileLoc)
Dim TextLine As String = ""
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how do you delete entire directories?
View 4 RepliesI'm creating that sets up project directories based on a template and also allows users to select folders from the template to add to a selected path (their project dir). I've got everything figured out as to creating the directory initially except for 1 thing that ties into another (stick with me here). I'd like to create the directories based on a text file or some sort of config file. Essentially, I would have a text file that contains lines like:
oot
ootsub1
ootsub2
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etc. Then when I create the directories, I can create them based on these lines. I think I can figure that part out myself. Where I'm stuck is on comparing the selected dir to the template dir. Right now I have a treeview control with checkboxes that is populated based on a path that the user selects from the folderbrowserdialog. What I need to do is compare the selected directory with the directories in the text file and if the directories exist (match) then they are checked. If they don't exist in the selected directory then they are unchecked.
If a user wants to add a directory from the template, they check the box for the dir they want and uncheck the boxes for the ones they dont. Then hit apply and the app will either create or delete the checked/unchecked dirs. What's the best way to handle the template dir? Should I do the text file thing or should I simply have the directory structure setup somewhere where the app can copy the dirs from the template to the selected directory? Or should I use an ini file? I want to make the app flexible so that down the road, if they change the template layout, or where the template lives, the app can be told that. So I need to add a way for the users for example to choose the template directory (but not everytime!) or specify the path that the template dir txt file lives.
The following statement returns ALL directories in DirPath
"For
Each Dir
In
My.Computer.FileSystem.GetDirectories(DirPath)"
How can I identify those directories that should be excluded from general use, such as $Recycle.bin, System Volume Information
In other words, dulicate the function of Windows Explorer.
how to list the directories like (c:,d:) in combobox
View 2 Replieswhy my code is not listing the sub directories in the list box?
Public
Sub SubDirButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SubDirButton.Click
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