Hello everyone :)
I'm a new guy here, and somewhat new to the .NET programming framework.
I'm working in C# (not my languages of choice, but my company is asking me to use it to work with everyone else we just hired)
So I guess this is my first question........could someone point me to an example of how to use the System.IO.File and System.IO.FileStream objects
I'm trying to do one of 2 things:
Grab a file's information and store it in a database (via the File object's static methods), or grab the file itself and store it in the database (as BLOB).
Both of these things I don't really know how to do, but I understand what is necessary to do it from having done it in other languages........can anyone help
System.IO.File / FileStream
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System.IO.File / FileStream
Mathias Raacke
private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
System.IO.DirectoryInfo di = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo("C:\\");
foreach (System.IO.FileInfo fi in di.GetFiles("*.*"))
{
// You could write this information to a database, as well.
// That's a different issue, however.
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(fi.FullName);
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(fi.CreationTime);
}
System.IO.FileStream fs;
foreach (System.IO.FileInfo fi in di.GetFiles("*.*"))
{
fs = File.OpenRead(fi.FullName);
// You could use the fs.Read method to read the contents into a byte array,
// and then save the contents into a database row.
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(fs.Length);
fs.Close();
}
}
Storing the file itself in the database as a blob is going to require fooling with byte arrays, and database-specific issues. It's basically the same issue, however--you need to loop through a folder and for each file, open a FileStream. The code shows both techniques, and there are about 17 other ways to do this, as well. That's the problem with the System.IO namespace -- there are always a lot of ways to accomplish any goal. I find myself ALWAYS going to the online help for this, and the documentation contains some simple, useful examples.
unreal-xan