Getting a directory listing

[groston]

I know that I can use GetFiles to get a listing of the files in a directory. However, this command seems to just return a collection of strings with the file names. What command can I use that will provide both the files' names and the types of the files, i.e., file, directory, link, etc?

[.paul.]

This might help...

https://www.w3computing.com/vb2008/d...einfo-classes/

[groston]

Good call. Here’s a simplified version of my code:

    Sub Main()
        Dim DI As New DirectoryInfo(basePath)
        Dim allItems() As FileSystemInfo = DI.GetFileSystemInfos()
        Dim Item As FileSystemInfo
        For Each Item In allItems
            <value> = fileAttr(Item.Attributes)
        Next
    End Sub

    Function fileAttr(ByVal attrVal As Integer) As XXX
        If (attrVal And FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY) = FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY Then <val> = ??
        <etc>
        Return <val>
    End Function

Only one more question: I found no file attributes to indicate if a file is a shortcut (in Linux-eze, symbolic link). Anyway to figure this out?

[.paul.]

I found this…

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-symbolic-link