Renaming a file

[Richard L Rosenheim]

Correct me if I'm wrong...

It appears that out of the 1800+ classes in the .Net framework, there isn't
a file rename method (discounting the rename function in the vb namespace).
And that the solution is to move the file to the same directory with a
different destination name.

Does that correctly summarize it?

Richard

[CT]

Richard,

I've always done it like that, which is pretty straightforward. However, if
anyone knows a better/different way...

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"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message
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Correct me if I'm wrong...

It appears that out of the 1800+ classes in the .Net framework, there
isn't
a file rename method (discounting the rename function in the vb
namespace).
And that the solution is to move the file to the same directory with a
different destination name.

Does that correctly summarize it?

Richard

[Shankara Narayanan]

Yes -
Afraid so. You have to move the file for renaming. I have also
faced same prob.
Shankar
10/27/2004 11:36:18 AM
Richard L Rosenheim <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message
<Ov**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>

Correct me if I'm wrong...

It appears that out of the 1800+ classes in the .Net framework, there isn't a file rename method (discounting the rename function in the vb namespace). And that the solution is to move the file to the same directory with a different destination name.

Does that correctly summarize it?

Richard

[Nishith Pathak]

Dear all,

There is Rename function available in Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace and is
only available to VB.Net and not to other language like C#. seems strange
when i do it. But the best universal and standard solution to rename the file
is to use the File.Move method but in case if you r working on VB.NET, you
got the rename function to rename your files.

Nishith

"Shankara Narayanan" wrote:

Yes -
Afraid so. You have to move the file for renaming. I have also
faced same prob.
Shankar
10/27/2004 11:36:18 AM
Richard L Rosenheim <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message
<Ov**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>

Correct me if I'm wrong...

It appears that out of the 1800+ classes in the .Net framework,

there isn't

a file rename method (discounting the rename function in the vb

namespace).

And that the solution is to move the file to the same directory

with a

different destination name.

Does that correctly summarize it?

Richard

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Nishith Pathak <Ni***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

There is Rename function available in Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace and is
only available to VB.Net and not to other language like C#.

No, you can use the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace from C#. The Rename
method is a static one in the FileSystem class.

I can't see that it's likely to have a significantly different effect
to using File.Move though.

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[Chris Dunaway]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:24:10 +0530, Shankara Narayanan wrote:

Yes -
Afraid so. You have to move the file for renaming. I have also
faced same prob.

Why is that a problem? It works as intended. When calling the Move method
to the same folder, I believe it just changes the name and does not
actually "move" anything.

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