Deleting a folder

6 Sep 2006 12:17 AM

BobRoyAce

I am using Visual Studio .NET 2005 to create a Windows Forms
application. I know that I can use My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile to
delete a file. How do I delete an empty folder/directory though? How
could I delete a folder that wasn't empty?

6 Sep 2006 1:00 AM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"BobRoyAce" <b***@omegasoftwareinc.com> schrieb:
>I am using Visual Studio .NET 2005 to create a Windows Forms
> application. I know that I can use My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile to
> delete a file. How do I delete an empty folder/directory though? How
> could I delete a folder that wasn't empty?

'My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteDirectory'.

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6 Sep 2006 3:12 AM

BobRoyAce

Yea, that would make sense...thanks. I looked for DeleteFolder...never
even looked for DeleteDirectory!

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:
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> "BobRoyAce" <b***@omegasoftwareinc.com> schrieb:
> >I am using Visual Studio .NET 2005 to create a Windows Forms
> > application. I know that I can use My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile to
> > delete a file. How do I delete an empty folder/directory though? How
> > could I delete a folder that wasn't empty?
>
> 'My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteDirectory'.
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

6 Sep 2006 1:59 AM

Chris

Hi BobRoyAce,

I tried

Try
System.IO.Directory.Delete("C:\test", True)
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.message.tostring)
End Try

Have a look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fxeahc5f.aspx for
more information

Best regards,

Chris

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>I am using Visual Studio .NET 2005 to create a Windows Forms
> application. I know that I can use My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile to
> delete a file. How do I delete an empty folder/directory though? How
> could I delete a folder that wasn't empty?
>