Logic advice requested.

[Ty Moffett]

I am new to C# and developing in general. During my studies I got an idea
for a program that would basically be Windows Explorer with the added
ability to show the size of each and every folder and everything below it in
the tree.

A week or so later I happened across a program called Disktective at
www.freebyte.com that did almost exactly what I wanted. Here is a
screenshot: http://www.freebyte.com/disktective/screen12.png.

Even though I found this very nice program that does what I needed I decided
to continue with my project.

I've coded enough to make an explorer like program that just added nodes to
a treeview control with all of the logical drives and subfolders on the
system.

The part that eludes me is the logic to make all of the calculations and
store the data.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks in advance and sorry for the rambling.

Ty Moffett

 

[Guest]

There is a good example of how to go through folders and recurse through file and sub-directories here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...systemiodirectoryclassgetdirectoriestopic1.as

Interms of storing the totaled directory sizes, you can create a temp hidden file that your application can use ans store it in each folder. Only prob with this is how do you track when new files and folders have been added or deleted

Rasika