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c#consoledirectory
user5458125
user5458125

Reputation:

C# List Contents of Given Directory

How do I list the contents of a given directory?

We can say private string directory = @"C:\"; and what I then want is to use Console.WriteLine() to display the contents of directory.

However, after hours of research on this site, I still could not find an answer that worked. I have tried solutions like Directory.GetDirectories(SourcePath, "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories)) but the code failed to build. How do I fix this?

I have this at the beginning of my code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

Am I missing something? What am I doing wrong? How do I fix this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 454

Answers (2)

Eric J.
Eric J.

Reputation: 150178

Directory.EnumerateDirectories() returns an enumeration of all subdirectories of the specified directory.

foreach (var dir in Directory.EnumerateDirectories(@"C:\"))
{
    Console.WriteLine(dir);
}

If however or in addition you wish to specify all files, use File.GetFiles()

foreach (var file in Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\"))
{
    Console.WriteLine(file);
}

Both of these are in the System.IO namespace, so include this in your using section

using System.IO;

Upvotes: 1

MikeH
MikeH

Reputation: 4395

using System.IO;

Visual Studio offers a nice feature for the situations where you don't know which using statement you need: Right click on Directory and the second option (in VS 2013) is "Resolve", then a sub-menu with "using System.IO". Click that sub-menu item and it will automatically add the using statement.

Upvotes: 0

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