[RESOLVED] Problems with creating directory

[HowTo]

I tried this code:

Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        If Directory.Exists("c:\testDir1") Then
            'shows message if testdir1 exist
            MsgBox("Directory 'testDir' Exist ")
        Else
            'create the directory testDir1
            Directory.CreateDirectory("c:\testDir1")
            MsgBox("testDir1 created ! ")
            'create the directory testDir2
            Directory.CreateDirectory("c:\testDir1\testDir2")
            MsgBox("testDir2 created ! ")
            'move the directory testDir2 as testDir in c:\
            Directory.Move("c:\testDir1\testDir2", "c:\testDir")
            MsgBox("testDir2 moved ")
            'delete the directory testDir1
            Directory.Delete("c:\testDir1")
            MsgBox("testDir1 deleted ")
        End If
    End Sub
End Class

i am getting errors such as:

Exists is not a member of directory
          CreateDirectory is not a member of directory....... and so on

how to remove these errors?

thank you

[boops boops]

It ought to work the way you've shown it so I think there must be something you are not showing us. This perhaps?

Private Class Directory
End Class

If you have that in your code, the compiler will look there instead of in System.IO. You could get rid of the errors by giving an unambiguous reference, for example:

If System.IO.Directory.Exists(path) ..

Or change the name of your own Directory object. Did I guess right?

bye, BB

[HowTo]

hi bb,

i pasted exactly the same code that id did in my project.........

to remove the bug i just placed an IO before all the Directory...........i.e,IO.Directory.Exists,IO.Directory.CreateDirectory and so on...........

Can you say why is it behaving like this?

[Megalith]

you need to import the system.io namespace

make sure that it is included in your app properties/references/imported namespaces

[HowTo]

make sure that it is included in your app properties/references/imported namespaces

what do you mean by this?

you can see my first post where i imported System.IO

but i cant understand what you meant by the above.............

need your help

thank you

[HowTo]

ok now i did this:


then i did exactly the same code that i gave in the first post,but still the same problem..............it tells

exists is not a member of directory

for this particular line od the code:

Directory.exists("C:\testDir")

need some help

thank you

[Siddharth Rout]

I don't have access to vb.net at the moment so I typed this in Notepad so please amend the syntax errors if any...

Could you tell me what do you get when you use this code?

Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        MsgBox DirExst("C:\testDir1")
    End Sub

    Public Function DirExst(ByVal Path As String) As Boolean
        On Error Resume Next
        Dim myIO As New FileInfo(Path)
        If Not myIO.Exists() Then
            myIO = New DirectoryInfo(Path)
        End If
        Return myIO.Exists()
    End Function
End Class