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gabrieljcs
gabrieljcs

Reputation: 675

Substitute for CreateDirectory or Path.Combine in Windows 8 apps

CreateDirectory and Path.Combine doesn't seem to work on Windows 8 applications. How could I substitute it?

My first intention was to create a folder inside %APPDATA%, but

Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)

(something like that, I don't quite remember) doesn't work on Windows 8 apps. So I tried to get the documents library by using

KnownFolders.DocumentsLibrary

but I don't know how to create a folder inside it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 319

Answers (1)

Patryk Ćwiek
Patryk Ćwiek

Reputation: 14328

DocumentsLibrary returns a storage folder:

StorageFolder documents = KnownFolders.DocumentsLibrary;

Now the StorageFolder, or maybe I should say its interface, IStorageFolder has a method CreateFolderAsync with two overloads. The simplest one:

StorageFolder newFolder = await documents.CreateFolderAsync("MyDir");

Other overload specifies the behavior when there's a directory name collision.

Upvotes: 1

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