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Hey Guys,

I have been trying to get the list of files on a particular folder by
binding it to a datalist. But i have been getting an error each time i
try to compile it in VS.NET it gives in error. Im sorry if this is a
stupid question but im new to c#.

Thanks in advance..........
Here's my code:

CODE-BEHIND:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.SessionState;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.IO;

namespace csharp
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for ArrayToDataList.
/// </summary>
public class ArrayToDataList : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataList dgFiles;

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Put user code to initialize the page here
dgFiles.DataSource = Directory.GetFiles("C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\");
dgFiles.DataBind();
}

}
}

---------------------------------------------------------------------
ASP.NET file

<%@ Page language="c#" Codebehind="ArrayToDataList.aspx.cs"
AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="csharp.ArrayToDataList" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>ArrayToDataList</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0">
<meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" Content="C#">
<meta name=vs_defaultClientScript content="JavaScript">
<meta name=vs_targetSchema
content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
</HEAD>
<body >

<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<asp:DataList repeatcolumns="2" cellspacing="5" id=dgFiles
runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<%# Container.DataItem %>
</ItemTemplate>

</asp:DataList>

</form>

</body>
</HTML>
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