displaying the content(files) of a directory with a button click

displaying the content(files) of a directory with a button click

• gjutras

  well i ve found the answer in another forum : System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path)
  
  thanks anyways :)
  
  

• John A Grandy

  Hello. Depending on your version of Visual Studio and how far you want to go you might want to add a listbox and in the button's click event do something like the following

  Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

  ShowDirectoryContents("c:\root\sample")

  End Sub

  Private Sub ShowDirectoryContents(ByVal path As String)

  For Each foundFile As IO.FileInfo In New IO.DirectoryInfo(path).GetFiles

  Me.ListBox1.Items.Add(foundFile.FullName)

  Next

  End Sub

   

  A slightly more advanced approach might fill up a treeview with the full path hierarchy of your drives and in the AfterSelect event make a call to the ShowDirectoryContents method. If you have Visual Studio 2005 they've given you a great head start on this with the pre-built Explorer Form

  
  
  
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