I am currently writing an application, where the user clicks a button, it scans for empty folders and then puts them in a listbox.The user can then then select the folders in the listbox and click delete. how to i get the scan button to find the empty folders?
View 6 Repliesive been searching round the net but the only examples i can find are for vb6 which i know nothing about, i want to be able to scan a folder and all sub folders with in it and delete any folders which are empty.
This is all the code ive put together so far:
vb Dim folder2scan as string = Folderbrowser.selectedpath
If IO.Directory.GetFileSystemEntries(folder2scan).Length = 0 Then
End If
I'm getting ready to take a class in VB.NET and I had a friend ask me if I could make a little something for him, so I said sure not knowing what it was at first.
I know I can use a GetDirectories() to list all the files/folders in a given directory. The part I'm not to sure about is how to list them with list headers of Path, Size, etc, and have them sortable.
I would like to know how to delete all files and folders under a certain directory. For example if I wanted to delete all files and folders in C:est how would I do that?
View 6 RepliesI Know how to delete files permanently like this
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here is the code i use for adding folders to the treenode. it works great but i want a delete button for deleting both files and folders... and how can i make the treenode auto refreshing. or refreshing when exiting another form...
Private Sub PopulateTreeView(ByVal dir As String, ByVal parentNode As TreeNode)
Dim folder As String = String.Empty
Try
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I know I can go to signing> and uncheck clickonce and assembly so I'll try that, but can I also just delete the folders in my solution explorer properties? I have not one but 3 folders in there --
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ive been searching the whols google, and i couldnt find a ny solution.. i was wondering if someone here can help me out, i am loading a listbox items from a .txt files, and sometimes there are empty lines, there is a way i can delete them?
View 10 RepliesHere is my problem-> I have three folders that I need to check if they are empty or not, if one of them is empty, I would like to keep checking the other two, if they are not empty I want to do something and then check the other two, but not all the time all three will be empty or not empty there might be times where one folder has something and the other two not and so on. I just want to check a folder and if its empty go to the next one but if not do something and still g to the next one to check if it empty or not, an so on.
View 3 RepliesFile I/O and Registry :: Remove empty folders from a TreeView
View 6 Repliesam created a function for deleting folder
Public Sub DeleteFolder(ByVal strPath As String)
Dim objDir As New DirectoryInfo(strPath)
objDir.Delete()
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how to delete them by using this My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteDirectory("C:Your_Folder", FileIO.DeleteDirectoryOption.DeleteAllContents) but it says that that this path cannot be accessed.I run vista how can i get rid of that?
View 5 RepliesIt appears that when IO.Directory.GetFiles tries to read a folder that it doesn't have access to it throws an exception & stops reading. Is there any way to have skip those folders & continue reading the rest of the folders?
View 1 RepliesI'm writing a little app that I can tell to delete files older than x amount of days.
You select a folder and click go and it does the job but it only does the files within that folder. What I want to do is also delete all the files in all the sub folders. [code]....
How can we delete folders older than 3 months based on file name I mean the folders need to be delete based on file name not based on modified date Folder name itself will be the date ( example : 20120825 ) this is YYYMMDD formate
View 7 RepliesHow to delete Folders ( not the files ) older than 1 month old.
View 9 RepliesMy program gives the user the ability to change where the files are saved. Is there a way to execute this
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I searched the forum for solving this issue, but couldn't find one. I made an uninstaller which uninstalls certain application. However this application have lots of read-only files and folders and my uninstaller isn't able to remove any of them. So I need a code that would do so. Here's the uninstaller code that I have:
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I made an uninstaller which uninstalls certain application. However this application have lots of read-only files and folders and my uninstaller isn't able to remove any of them.
Here's the uninstaller code that I have:
Imports System.IO
Dim path As String
Dim tempstring As String
Dim totalbytes As Long
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I am developing a VB.NET application which we will be running at user login on our corporate network which will be setting up the user's environment, this will include the start menu.
I have a method which is attempting to delete all files and folders located in the user's Start MenuPrograms folder (C:Users{user}AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuPrograms), our environment is Windows 7.[code]...
I made an uninstaller which uninstalls certain application. However this application have lots of read-only files and folders and my uninstaller isn't able to remove any of them.
Here's the uninstaller code that I have:
Imports System.IO
Dim path As String
Dim tempstring As String
Dim totalbytes As Long
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Is it possible to create a Message Box to delete folders in VB 2010 Express?This is what I have-If MessageBox.Show("Do you want to delete this folder ?", "Enter Title", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) = DialogResult.Yes Then End If ,modify, delete or add code so that it is possible to delete a certain specified folder?
View 4 RepliesI'm fiddling around with a small program that can delete a directory, including its sub-folders and files.This is the code I'm using: (Note-I found it on the net, I didn't code it myself)
Private Sub filedelete(ByVal filename As String)
Dim filesystemobject As Object
filesystemobject = CreateObject("Scripting.filesystemobject")[code]..........
So on click of button '2' the folders are cleaned out, and on click of button '3' they are deleted - it works great.Now the problem is, if any of the folders in the directory 'test' are not accessible to the current user, the program throws the exception 'Access to the path is denied.Is it possible to skip folders that are not accessible, and just ignore them, and delete the ones that are accessible?What code needs to be added to enable this ability?
My program actually downloads a zip file then extracts it onto their desktop. But I need an uninstall feature for it, which is basically deleting multiple folders and containing files. How can I do this in vb.net?
View 3 Repliesi have a Datagridview on my forum and when i Populate it it auto creates a empty row at the end of the grid... i have looked online and seen a few post about it but nothing seams to work... i have tryed...
DataGridView1.AllowUserToAddRows = False
i'm developing a program that must be able to create, delete and edit files or folders on a remote web address such as [URL]
View 2 RepliesHow can i delete a directory having subdirectory inside it which is not empty.
View 3 RepliesI'am new in the VB world, and should translate excel sheets into new sheets.I'am using Visual Studio 2008 (with VB .net I think) and I'am trying to tackle empty rows deletion.Maybe an additional problem is, that some columns having a space (visualy the row is empty and should be deleted).[code]...
View 10 Repliesi have 10 of empty row which doesnt not have any data, this is happen because i click to many insert button insert data. Please show me the coding should i use to delete my empty row. For you info i have table name is Bundle and 2 column which is name and type .
connection.ConnectionString = " Data Source=Danawa;Initial Catalog=Store;Integrated Security=True"
Try
connection.Open()
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I have a listbox that keep creating empty items due to appending text from a textbox that reads a text file. Could I have it just remove any empty items on startup?
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