directory help needed

[Dave Harris]

Once upon a time, a programmer could send the entire directory tree to a
text file by using the command:
dir c: >directory.txt

Is there a way to do this in VB.NET? I need the text file to contain all of
the directories, subdirectories, and files along with file size and total
directory size. Thanks in advance!!!!

Dave

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Once upon a time, a programmer could send the entire directory tree to a
text file by using the command:
dir c: >directory.txt

Is there a way to do this in VB.NET? I need the text file to contain all of
the directories, subdirectories, and files along with file size and total
directory size. Thanks in advance!!!!

There is no built-in method to do that. Have a look at the classes in
the 'System.IO' namespace, namely 'Directory', 'File', 'DirectoryInfo'
and 'FileInfo' and the 'StreamWriter' for writing the information to the
file.

 

[Mike Bulava]

You could use shell and run that same command. It still works

 

[Cor]

Hi Herfried,

One of your specialities the Shell class and than Mike says it can

)

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

One of your specialities the Shell class and than Mike says it can

You can start the console as demonstrated here:

<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet/dotnet/samples/miscsamples/downloads/RedirectConsole.zip>

IMO the command shell is not a feature of .NET.

;-)