Delete Files & Folders

Sample code to delete the Files and the Directories.

Namespace :

using System.IO;

Code:

Delete Directory:

         

            Directory.Delete("C:\test\")

            If Directory have the sub directories then,

            Directory.Delete("C:\test\", True)

Delete Files:

           File.Delete("C:\test\text.txt")

           To delete multiple files from Directory,

           string[] Files= Directory.GetFiles(@"c:\test\");

           foreach (string filePath in Files)
                  File.Delete(filePath);

Get Files from Directory using C#

Sample code to get the list of files from the source Directory. You can also add filter to search the specific file type only.

Namespace :

using System.IO;

Code:

Directory.GetFiles returns string array with files names.

string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(@"c:\Test\");

You can also search the files with specific pattern.

string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(@"c:\Test\", "*.txt");

To get the list of files from directory including the sub directories,

string[] filePaths = Directory.GetFiles(@"c:\Test\", "*.txt",SearchOption.AllDirectories);