C# 4.0 Unleashed

Working with Directories

As you know, directories are containers for files and other directories and thus provide a hierarchical means of organizing data. This is almost accurate because there are ways to create cycles on a file system. Ignoring this detail, you should already have an idea about what the DirectoryInfo will expose. Let’s take a look by means of an example:

This little piece of code shows a few interesting properties of directories, including a way to navigate to a folder’s parent and (drive) root folder DirectoryInfo object. An example of the output looks like this:

Richer navigation can obviously be achieved, using various methods. ...