How to write a program to search the computer for files.

[Guest]

Greetings unto thee.

I want to know how to write an application in vb.net that will search my
computer for files.

An example: Windows Media Player has an option to search your pc for media
files and import them to its media library.

I want to know how to do that (the searching part, not the importing)

Your assistance in this regrard will be utmost appreciated.

 

[Robin Tucker]

It's simply a recursive procedure, starting at the root and recursing
through sub-directories - you can maintain a collection of "found" items as
you go....:

Public Sub Scan (ByVal theFoundItems as ArrayList, ByVal theRoot as String)

Scan_Aux ( theFoundItems, theRoot )

End Sub

Public Sub Scan_Aux ( ByVal theFoundItems As ArrayList, ByVal theRoot As
String)

' First recurse through to the leaves....

Dim theDirectories() As String = Directory.GetDirectories ( theRoot )

For Each theDirectory As String In theDirectories
Scan_Aux ( theFoundItems, theDirectory )
Next



' Now scan the files in the current directory for any that match...

Dim theFiles() As String = Directory.GetFiles ( theRoot )

For Each theFile As String In theFiles

If ....<the file matches our criteria> Then
theFoundItems.Add theFile
End If

Next

End Sub

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I want to know how to write an application in vb.net that will search my
computer for files.
[...]
I want to know how to do that (the searching part, not the importing)

<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/samples/filesystem/FileSystemEnumerator.zip>