Deleting Internet Explorer Temporary Files in C#

[2MuchRiceMakesMeSick]

Can anyone tell me why this wont work? I got the right folder path but it will not remove the files in that folder.

DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.InternetCache));
foreach (FileInfo fl in di.GetFiles())
{
fl.Delete();
}

[conipto]

Can anyone tell me why this wont work? I got the right folder path but it will not remove the files in that folder.

DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.InternetCache));
foreach (FileInfo fl in di.GetFiles())
{
fl.Delete();
}

By doesn't work, what do you mean, just not deleting or throwing exceptions?

Bill

[2MuchRiceMakesMeSick]

it doesnt delete anything. no errors no exceptions

[conipto]

That folder requires some additional coding. Since index.dat amongst other files will not let you delete them, you have to take into account the access violations. There may be a quicker, cleaner method, but you can do this with recursive searching:

        private void safeRecursiveDeleter(string path)
        {
            foreach (string FileName in Directory.GetFiles(path))
            {
                try
                {
                    File.Delete(FileName);
                }
                catch { Exception ex; }//Certain files WILL give you access violations (index.dat)
            }
            foreach (string DirectoryName in Directory.GetDirectories(path)) 
            {
                safeRecursiveDeleter (DirectoryName);
                try
                {
                    Directory.Delete(DirectoryName, true); //Will kill the recursive search if there is no undeletable files
                }
                catch {Exception ex;}
            }
            
    }
//Called via:

                     safeRecursiveDeleter(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.InternetCache));

Bill

[iPrank]

I don't have enough expertise in C# to play with InterOp and APIs yet.

I guess you can use the DeleteUrlCacheEntry API to do this. Here is a VB6 example. May be it woun't be hard to convert it in C#

Edit:

found a related page in MS Support pages. It may help ? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326201/EN-US/