Deleting a folder

[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?

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"BobRoyAce" <br**@omegasoftwareinc.comschrieb:

>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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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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[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

"BobRoyAce" <br**@omegasoftwareinc.comwrote in message
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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?

[BobRoyAce]

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

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:

"BobRoyAce" <br**@omegasoftwareinc.comschrieb:

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/>