Help with Date comparison method

[Anthony123]

Details:

• Unknown # of folder in directory C:\...\releases\?
• Get the creation dates of those folders.
• Compare an unknown quantity of folders of their date of creation property.
• Retreive the folder's name from the list that has the creation date.

    
Private Sub GetLatestFolder(  )

        Dim createDates As New List(Of Date)  'Folder's corresponding date values
        Dim Folders As New List(Of String)       'Name of Folders themselves
        Dim counter As Integer = 0
        Dim result As Integer = 0   'Result from comparing dates
        Dim version As String  'The unknown version # of the latest folder 

        Try
            Dim myFolders As IEnumerable(Of DirectoryInfo) = Directory.GetDirectories("C:\Sound Manager\Design\projects\\releases", "*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly).Select(Function(x) New DirectoryInfo(x))
            For Each fName In myFolders
                createDates.Add(fName.CreationTime())
                Folders(counter) = fName.Name()
                counter = counter + 1
            Next

            If (Folders.Count >= 2) Then
                For i As Integer = 0 To Folders.Count - 1
                    result = Date.Compare(createDates(i), createDates(i + 1)) 
                Next
            End If


            If result < 0 Then

                version = Folders(1)

            Else

                version = Folders(0)

            End If

Return version


End sub

[.paul.]

'get folder names + sort by creation datetime
Dim Folders As List(Of String) = IO.Directory.GetDirectories("C:\Sound Manager\Design\projects\\releases", "*", IO.SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly).OrderBy(Function(f) New IO.FileInfo(f).CreationTime).ToList
'get corresponding creation datetimes
Dim createDates As List(Of Date) = Folders.ConvertAll(Function(f) New IO.FileInfo(f).CreationTime)

[dunfiddlin]

Compare an unknown quantity of folders of their date of creation property.
Retreive the folder's name from the list that has the creation date.

That doesn't make sense. I assume you mean to sort the folders by their date of creation but what name are you wanting to retrieve? The oldest, the newest, the one that was created nearest to last Tuesday?

[Anthony123]

That doesn't make sense. I assume you mean to sort the folders by their date of creation but what name are you wanting to retrieve? The oldest, the newest, the one that was created nearest to last Tuesday?

The newest one.

[.paul.]

using my code from post #2, the newest 1 will be Folders.Last