I need to get a list of files in a directory, say c:\temp, and display it in
a drop down list. How would I do that?

Use System.IO

Here's a tutorial for you :

http://msconline.maconstate.edu/tuto...pnet12-01.aspx




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>I need to get a list of files in a directory, say c:\temp, and display it in a drop down list. How would I do that?
>

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>I need to get a list of files in a directory, say c:\temp, and display it
>in a drop down list. How would I do that?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directory.getfiles(vs.80).aspx

This is server-side only - for (fairly obvious) security reasons, you can't
query the file system that a browser is running on without some sort of
client-side component e.g. WSH...


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Thanks, that works. Now I want to display the list sorted by date, so that
the most recent date is at the top of the list and automatically selected in
the drop down list. how would I do that?

<tester> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I need to get a list of files in a directory, say c:\temp, and display it
>in a drop down list. How would I do that?
>

<tester> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...

> Thanks, that works. Now I want to display the list sorted by date, so
> that the most recent date is at the top of the list

There's no built-in way to do that just with the GetFiles method. However,
what you require is easily achieved by adding the results to a generic and
sorting that:
http://blogs.msdn.com/markda/archive...20/580075.aspx

> and automatically selected in the drop down list.

Unless you specify otherwise, the first item in your DropDownList will be
selected by default.


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