asp.net problem

peteym

Hi folks, I'm using web matrix at the moment and I would like to display the files from a particular folder in a listbox, would anyone be able to help me???

grahamor

what do you mean, a particular folder in the website or on your desktop ?

You should probably write an xml page that has the name of the file and the reference to where it is and then bind the xml file to the listbox control.

I am familiar doing this with databases but not any other way

edit: you should download visual web developer 2005 aswell (it's free), web matrix is discontinued and shi*te because there is no predicitive code writing (intellisense) which will save you so much time

Gosh

This should do .. just call it for each folder (with the full path name)

Sub BuildFileList(strFolder)
   Set oFolder = oFS.getFolder(strFolder)
   Echo("<SELECT NAME=filelist>")
   For Each FileName in oFolder.Files
      Echo("<OPTION VALUE=" & Chr(34) & FileName.Name _
      & Chr(34) & ">" & FileName.Name & "</OPTION>")
   Next
   Echo ("</SELECT>")
   Set oFolder = Nothing
End Sub

peteym

The folder is located on a shared drive - trying to download microsoft web developer thingy but for some reason won't install for me.

Thanks for your help guys

Sneaky_Russian

in the page load, you could do something like so to list the files in the current directory

if(!IsPostBack)
    foreach(string filename in System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(Server.MapPath("~/")))
        ListBox1.Items.Add(new ListItem(filename));