FileSystem.GetDirectoryInfo(String) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

Source:: FileSystem.vb

Source:: FileSystem.vb

Source:: FileSystem.vb

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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.DirectoryInfo

Public Shared Function GetDirectoryInfo (directory As String) As DirectoryInfo

Parameters

directory: String

String. Path of directory.

Returns

DirectoryInfo

DirectoryInfo object for the specified path.

Exceptions

ArgumentException

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 \\.\).

ArgumentNullException

directory is Nothing or an empty string.

PathTooLongException

The path exceeds the system-defined maximum length.

NotSupportedException

The directory path contains a colon (:) or is in an invalid format.

SecurityException

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.

Applies to