Get a list of files in a directory in descending order by creation date.

Question

I have created a folder that a user can copy and paste a monthly newsletter PDF into.

Trying to get the monthly newsletter PDF list of files and sort them by the day they were created on the crownfile page, and then select the last recently modified file to be downloaded from the homepage.

HomeController :

public IActionResult Index(int howMany = 1)
        {
            IPv4();

            ViewBag.model = new FilesViewModel2();

            string CrownFile = @"c:\IntranetDoc\News\Current\";

            foreach (var getnewsdoc in Directory.GetFiles(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), CrownFile)).Take(howMany))
            {
                ViewBag.model.Files7.Add(new FileDetails
                {                   
                    NameNews = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(getnewsdoc),
                    PathNews = getnewsdoc,
                    DPNews = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(getnewsdoc),
                    ExtNews = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(getnewsdoc).ToUpper()

                });

            }


            return View();
   
            
        }

public IActionResult CrownLife()
        {
            IPv4();
            var model = new FilesViewModel2();
            string CrownFile = @"c:\IntranetDoc\News\Current\";

            foreach (var getnewsdoc in Directory.GetFiles(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), CrownFile)))
            {
                model.Files7.Add(new FileDetails
                {
                    NameNews = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(getnewsdoc),
                    PathNews = getnewsdoc,
                    DPNews = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(getnewsdoc),
                    ExtNews = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(getnewsdoc).ToUpper()

                }) ;

            }
            return View(model);
        }

CrownLife

	
										@foreach (var getnewsdoc in Model.Files7)
											{
												
											}
									
									

													
														
															@if (getnewsdoc.ExtNews == ".PDF")
																	{
																		
																	}
															@if (getnewsdoc.ExtNews == ".DOC" || getnewsdoc.ExtNews == ".DOCX")
																	{
																		
																	}
															@if (getnewsdoc.ExtNews == ".ZIP")
																	{
																	
																	}
															@if (getnewsdoc.ExtNews == ".XLS" || getnewsdoc.ExtNews == ".XLSX")
																	{
																	
																	}									
													
														
													@getnewsdoc.DPNews
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Index

 @foreach (var item in ViewBag.model.Files7 )
                {
                @item.DPNews
          

                
                    New
                
                
                }

What it looks like now:

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Home Page

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Accepted Answer

So you want to get the files in a directory sorted by their create date?

public IActionResult Index(int howMany = 1)
{
    IPv4();

    ViewBag.model = new FilesViewModel2();

    string CrownFile = @"c:\IntranetDoc\News\Current\";

    //Get files ordered descending by creation date
    var files = new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(...))
                         .EnumerateFiles()
                         .OrderByDescending(f => f.CreationTime)
                         .Take(howMany);

    ViewBag.model.Files7 = files.Select(f => new FileDetails
                {                   
                    NameNews = f.Name,
                    PathNews = f.FullName,
                    DPNews = f.Name,
                    ExtNews = f.Extension.ToUpper()
                });

    return View();
}

Get a list of files in a directory in descending order by creation date.

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