FileSystem.GetDirectoryInfo(String) Method
Definition
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Returns a DirectoryInfo object for the specified path.
public:
static System::IO::DirectoryInfo ^ GetDirectoryInfo(System::String ^ directory);public static System.IO.DirectoryInfo GetDirectoryInfo (string directory);static member GetDirectoryInfo : string -> System.IO.DirectoryInfoPublic Shared Function GetDirectoryInfo (directory As String) As DirectoryInfoParameters
- directory
- String
String. Path of directory.
Returns
DirectoryInfo object for the specified path.
Exceptions
The path is not valid for one of the following reasons: it is a zero-length string; it contains only white space; it contains invalid characters; or it is a device path (starts with \\.\).
directory is Nothing or an empty string.
The path exceeds the system-defined maximum length.
The directory path contains a colon (:) or is in an invalid format.
The user lacks necessary permissions to view the path.
Examples
This example gets a DirectoryInfo object for the directory C:\Documents and Settings and displays the directory's creation time, last access time, and last write time.
Dim getInfo = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetDirectoryInfo(
My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.MyDocuments)
MsgBox("The directory was created at " & getInfo.CreationTime)
MsgBox("The directory was last accessed at " & getInfo.LastAccessTime)
MsgBox("The directory was last written to at " & getInfo.LastWriteTime)
Remarks
If the directory does not exist, an exception is not thrown until the first time a property on the DirectoryInfo object is accessed.
