Csharp/C Sharp by API/System.IO/Directory

Directory.CreationTime

  
using System;
using System.IO;
class MainClass {
    static void Main(string[] args) {
        FileInfo file = new FileInfo("c:\\a.txt");
        // Display directory information.
        DirectoryInfo dir = file.Directory;
        Console.WriteLine("Checking directory: " + dir.Name);
        Console.WriteLine("In directory: " + dir.Name);
        Console.Write("Directory exists: ");
        Console.WriteLine(dir.Exists.ToString());
        if (dir.Exists) {
            Console.Write("Directory created: ");
            Console.WriteLine(dir.CreationTime.ToString());
        }
        Console.WriteLine();
    }
}

Directory.Delete

 
using System;
using System.IO;
class MaionClass
{
  public static void Main(String[] args)
  {
    try
    {
      Directory.Delete(@"C:\WinNT\MyFoo");
      Directory.Delete(@"C:\WinNT\MyBar", true);
    }
    catch(IOException e)
    {
      Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
    }
  }
}

Directory.Exists

 
using System;
using System.IO;
static class MainClass
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(Directory.Exists("c:\\"));
    }
}

Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()

  
using System;
using System.IO;
public class DirInfoApp
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());
        Console.WriteLine("Current Dir: {0}", dir.FullName);
   
        foreach (FileInfo f in dir.GetFiles())
        {
            Console.WriteLine("{0,-14}{1,10}{2,20}",f.Name, f.Length, f.LastWriteTime);
        }
    }
}

Directory.GetFiles

 
using System;
using System.IO;
class MainClass
{
  public static void Main() 
  {
    string[] aFiles = Directory.GetFiles("c:\\");
    foreach (string s in aFiles)
      Console.WriteLine(s);
  }
}

Directory.GetLogicalDrives

 
using System;
using System.IO;
class MaionClass
{
  public static void Main(String[] args)
  {
    string[] drives = Directory.GetLogicalDrives();
    Console.WriteLine("Here are your drives:");
    foreach(string s in drives)
    {
      Console.WriteLine("--> {0}", s);
    }
  }
}

Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(String path)

  
using System;
using System.IO;
class MainClass {
    static void Main() {
        Console.WriteLine("Changing current directory to c:\\");
        Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(@"c:\");
        Console.WriteLine("Now the relative path "file.txt" " + "will automatically become "" + Path.GetFullPath("file.txt") + """);
    }
}