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Ambati Srinivasalu

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Hi,

Can anybody direct me to sample code for Copying Folder.

Thanks

Srinivas

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Mitch Denny (VIP)

Ambati,

There is no built-in method (that I could find) to copy
a directory from one location to another, but you can do
a fairly trivial copy in just a few lines of code:

    DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\DIR1");

    foreach (FileInfo file in directory.GetFiles())
    {

        file.CopyTo(@"C:\DIR2");

    }

The problem with this code is that it won't traverse
sub-directories, and extra work is required. This is
also quite easy to do using a re-entrant method which
walks the directory tree, you just need to keep an eye
on the memory foot-print when doing this, and also
the possibility of causing a stack overflow - although
I think you would run into a limitation of NTFS before
you blew the stack in .NET :)

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Can anybody direct me to sample code for Copying Folder.

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