Navigating to the parent subdirectory

[BobAchgill]

Is this the right way to get to back up to the immediate
parent subdirectory?

Directory.GetParent("\")

or this?

Directory.GetParent("..")

Or this?

Directory.GetParent()

Thanks!

Bob

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Bob,

What is the reason that you just don't try this kind of things yourself.

Cor

 

[BobAchgill]

Cor,

Thanks for the encouragement to persist...

Once I figured out I could put TextBox1's on either side
of the line of code I was trying to change to the parent
directory then I could start to see what was going on in
the Auto window.

And the winning line of code to change to a parent
directory iiiisssssss.....

TextBox1.Text = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(Directory.GetParent(CurDir
()).ToString)

TextBox1.Text = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

Thanks!

Bob

Teach a man to fish and he will not go hungry...
Give a man a fish and he will starve to death.

This one needed some persisting on my part. )

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Is this the right way to get to back up to the immediate
parent subdirectory?

\\\
Dim ParentDirectory As String = _
Directory.GetParent("C:\foo\goo").FullName
///