ok, here is my situation:
I want to create an app that dynamically loads new components from a web
server. to do that I have to read all files in a directory on the webserver.
How can I do that?

System.IO.Directory
System.IO.DirectoryInfo
System.IO.File
System.IO.FileInfo

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Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
If you push something hard enough,
it will fall over.
- Fudd's First Law of Opposition

"Nico P." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F7C3E898-29BF-4334-9980-(E-Mail Removed)...
> ok, here is my situation:
> I want to create an app that dynamically loads new components from a web
> server. to do that I have to read all files in a directory on the
> webserver.
> How can I do that?

I already know these classes and I tried this:

If System.IO.Directory.Exists("http://localhost/ACalcComponents/") Then
Me.txtError.Text = "Yeah!"
Else
Me.txtError.Text = "D'oh!"
End If

the answer is "D'oh", although the directory exists. I don't really know how
the path string should look like? I also tried it with
"file:///localhost/ACalcComponents/" , but I also doesn't work. Can you
please give me a small example of your solution?


"Kevin Spencer" wrote:

> System.IO.Directory
> System.IO.DirectoryInfo
> System.IO.File
> System.IO.FileInfo
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> ..Net Developer
> If you push something hard enough,
> it will fall over.
> - Fudd's First Law of Opposition
>
> "Nico P." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:F7C3E898-29BF-4334-9980-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > ok, here is my situation:
> > I want to create an app that dynamically loads new components from a web
> > server. to do that I have to read all files in a directory on the
> > webserver.
> > How can I do that?
>
>
>

i should mention that I want a client (that runs on a different computer) to
get the files from the directory on the web server.

HTTP is a TCP transport protocol. It is not a file system protocol. You
cannot use an HTTP url with IO classes. You can either use a file path or
UNC, or use a web client to get the file via HTTP.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
If you push something hard enough,
it will fall over.
- Fudd's First Law of Opposition

"Nico P." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:643B73F1-958C-4A50-86A4-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I already know these classes and I tried this:
>
> If System.IO.Directory.Exists("http://localhost/ACalcComponents/") Then
> Me.txtError.Text = "Yeah!"
> Else
> Me.txtError.Text = "D'oh!"
> End If
>
> the answer is "D'oh", although the directory exists. I don't really know
> how
> the path string should look like? I also tried it with
> "file:///localhost/ACalcComponents/" , but I also doesn't work. Can you
> please give me a small example of your solution?
>
>
> "Kevin Spencer" wrote:
>
>> System.IO.Directory
>> System.IO.DirectoryInfo
>> System.IO.File
>> System.IO.FileInfo
>>
>> --
>> HTH,
>>
>> Kevin Spencer
>> Microsoft MVP
>> ..Net Developer
>> If you push something hard enough,
>> it will fall over.
>> - Fudd's First Law of Opposition
>>
>> "Nico P." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:F7C3E898-29BF-4334-9980-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > ok, here is my situation:
>> > I want to create an app that dynamically loads new components from a
>> > web
>> > server. to do that I have to read all files in a directory on the
>> > webserver.
>> > How can I do that?
>>
>>
>>

ok, i can load the html file that contains the file list. But are there any
special classes to read data from an html file in .NET?

An HTML file is pure text. What exactly do you mean by "read" it?

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
If you push something hard enough,
it will fall over.
- Fudd's First Law of Opposition

"Nico P." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:71D3BBDB-484B-4E7B-B158-(E-Mail Removed)...
> ok, i can load the html file that contains the file list. But are there
> any
> special classes to read data from an html file in .NET?

I mean something like the system.xml classes for xml documents, but for html,
so that I can easily get a list of all <A HREF...> tags in the document for
example. I just want to avoid to write an own parser if something like this
exists. but I haven't found anything yet...

"Kevin Spencer" wrote:

> An HTML file is pure text. What exactly do you mean by "read" it?
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> ..Net Developer
> If you push something hard enough,
> it will fall over.
> - Fudd's First Law of Opposition
>
> "Nico P." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:71D3BBDB-484B-4E7B-B158-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > ok, i can load the html file that contains the file list. But are there
> > any
> > special classes to read data from an html file in .NET?
>
>
>