[Narendrass]

I am trying to get attributes of File or directory using vb.net 2005. I am using GetFileAttributesEx. But some how it is not giving me proper info.
can some one help me with getting file information.

Regards,

Narendra Shetty.

[Amadeus]

Can you show how you're using it?

[alsaan]

Take a look at System.IO.FileInfo and System.IO.DirectoryInfo

For example, to get the size of a file you'd do something like this:

Dim fileSize as Long = New System.IO.FileInfo("C:\path\to\file.txt").Lenght

To get the creation time of a directory:

Dim creationTime as Date = New System.IO.DirectoryInfo("C:\path\to\dir").CreationTime

Hope that helps

Cheers

This post has been edited by alsaan: 19 June 2007 - 11:48 AM

[Narendrass]

I am using something like this
Dim ret As Long, i As Integer
Dim w As WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA
ret = GetFileAttributesEx("c:\", 0, w)

here I am confused with second parameter to getFileAttributesEx function.

Also I need to know how can I see the attributes values.
I basically want to check if the file is compressed or not.
Regards,

Narendra Shetty.

[alsaan]

	Function IsCompressed(ByVal filePath As String) As Boolean

		Dim attrib As System.IO.FileAttributes = System.IO.File.GetAttributes(filePath)

		If (attrib And System.IO.FileAttributes.Compressed) = System.IO.FileAttributes.Compressed Then
			Return True
		Else
			Return False
		End If

	End Function 

[PsychoCoder]

I agree with the others, using the System.IO.FileInfo is really the preferred way of getting file attributes (over GetFileAttributesEx).