Working with Files

[gadafi]

Hi there:
I am developing an application that load photos from folderss. The problem is that I have a very big number of files in each directory, and I need to get the First and the Last file of each directory. I have tried to use FileInfo and Directory.GetFiles(). The problem is that it take a lot of time to return the FileInfo[]. Is there any method as C++ FindFirst or FindNext? Any idea about how to solve this problem?
Thanks

 

[chiph]

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this via the .net framework. Ideally, you'd issue a BeginGetFiles call, and have it call you back via a delegate. But even the v2.0 framework doesn't seem to offer that ability.

You can write your own class to do this, wrappering the Win32 FindFirst and FindNext methods so they call you via a delegate. But I'm not sure you want to go to that much work.

CHip H.


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