How do you get a list of files from server folder to display on in a list control

[maglev_now]

I'm using .net 1.1 trying to get a list of files in folder on the server.
The user would select the file they want to download from a DropDownList.
Can someone tell me how this should be done? I can't find the right class
or object to use. Is it the File class or the FolderBrowser? Stuck like
Chuck!!! Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.

 

[Shahzad Godil]

You can use FileSystemObject like this.

<%
Set objFSO=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.filesystemobject")
Set objFold=objFSO.GetFolder("E:\admin\uploads")
Set objfiles=objFold.files
%>
and then generating my drop down using

<select name="productThumb" id="productThumb">
<option><%For Each objFile in objFolder.files
objFile.Name
Next
%></optio

Shahzad Godil

Karachi-Pakistan.

 

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

You can use FileSystemObject like this.

<%
Set objFSO=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.filesystemobject")
Set objFold=objFSO.GetFolder("E:\admin\uploads")
Set objfiles=objFold.files
%>
and then generating my drop down using

<select name="productThumb" id="productThumb">
<option><%For Each objFile in objFolder.files
objFile.Name
Next
%></optio

Shahzad Godil

Karachi-Pakistan.

Are you seriously proposing using the FileSystemObject in an ASP.NET
environment? That's sub-optimal to say the least

To the OP: You get a list of files in a folder using the
System.IO.DirectoryInfo class.

For example:

DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo( "c:\\temp" );
if ( dir.Exists )
{
FileInfo[] filesInDir = dir.GetFiles();
}

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directoryinfo.aspx

HTH,
Laurent

 

[maglev_now]

Thanks for the responses...

This is what I got using a DropDownList and a Button.

Dim parentfolder As String = "recipes"
Dim myDir As New DirectoryInfo(Server.MapPath(parentfolder))
Me.DDLFileNames.DataSource = myDir.GetFiles("*.doc")
Me.DDLFileNames.DataBind()
Session("FilePath") = myDir.ToString

**Click the download button and...
Session("FileName") = Me.DDLFileNames.SelectedItem.ToString
Response.Redirect("FileDownload.aspx")

**page load in FileDownload.aspx
Dim filename As String = DirectCast(Session("FileName"), String)
Dim filepath As String = DirectCast(Session("FilePath"), String)
Dim fullpath As String = filepath + "\" + filename
Response.Clear()
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", _
"attachment; filename=""" & filename & """")
Response.Flush()
Response.WriteFile(fullpath)
Session.Abandon()

This works great running at home but when I upload it to my server the
file(aword.doc) gets downloaded and it is empty. Any ideas why that is?


Thanks again.

Hi,

You can use FileSystemObject like this.

<%
Set objFSO=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.filesystemobject")
Set objFold=objFSO.GetFolder("E:\admin\uploads")
Set objfiles=objFold.files
%>
and then generating my drop down using

<select name="productThumb" id="productThumb">
<option><%For Each objFile in objFolder.files
objFile.Name
Next
%></optio

Shahzad Godil

Karachi-Pakistan.

Are you seriously proposing using the FileSystemObject in an ASP.NET
environment? That's sub-optimal to say the least

To the OP: You get a list of files in a folder using the
System.IO.DirectoryInfo class.

For example:

DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo( "c:\\temp" );
if ( dir.Exists )
{
FileInfo[] filesInDir = dir.GetFiles();
}

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directoryinfo.aspx

HTH,
Laurent




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Software engineering: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch
Private/Malaysia: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/lbugnion
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[maglev_now]

Problem solved... Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the responses...

This is what I got using a DropDownList and a Button.

Dim parentfolder As String = "recipes"
Dim myDir As New DirectoryInfo(Server.MapPath(parentfolder))
Me.DDLFileNames.DataSource = myDir.GetFiles("*.doc")
Me.DDLFileNames.DataBind()
Session("FilePath") = myDir.ToString

**Click the download button and...
Session("FileName") = Me.DDLFileNames.SelectedItem.ToString
Response.Redirect("FileDownload.aspx")

**page load in FileDownload.aspx
Dim filename As String = DirectCast(Session("FileName"), String)
Dim filepath As String = DirectCast(Session("FilePath"), String)
Dim fullpath As String = filepath + "\" + filename
Response.Clear()
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", _
"attachment; filename=""" & filename & """")
Response.Flush()
Response.WriteFile(fullpath)
Session.Abandon()

This works great running at home but when I upload it to my server the
file(aword.doc) gets downloaded and it is empty. Any ideas why that is?


Thanks again.

Hi,

You can use FileSystemObject like this.

<%
Set objFSO=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.filesystemobject")
Set objFold=objFSO.GetFolder("E:\admin\uploads")
Set objfiles=objFold.files
%>
and then generating my drop down using

<select name="productThumb" id="productThumb">
<option><%For Each objFile in objFolder.files
objFile.Name
Next
%></optio

Shahzad Godil

Karachi-Pakistan.

Are you seriously proposing using the FileSystemObject in an ASP.NET
environment? That's sub-optimal to say the least

To the OP: You get a list of files in a folder using the
System.IO.DirectoryInfo class.

For example:

DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo( "c:\\temp" );
if ( dir.Exists )
{
FileInfo[] filesInDir = dir.GetFiles();
}

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directoryinfo.aspx

HTH,
Laurent

I'm using .net 1.1 trying to get a list of files in folder on the
server. The user would select the file they want to download from a
DropDownList. Can someone tell me how this should be done? I can't
find the right class or object to use. Is it the File class or the
FolderBrowser? Stuck like Chuck!!! Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.

--
Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft
Software engineering: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch
Private/Malaysia: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/lbugnion
Support children in Calcutta: http://www.calcutta-espoir.ch