How do I create a window form application in visual C# which shows me various attributes of selected drive/folders ?

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Requirements –
1)	User to be able to browse & select folders 
2)	Run the analysis (there must be a run button)
3)	A sample dashboard should display total folders, size and % of space, # of files and # of folders inside each folder, Last modified date
4)	Bar chart of folder size

What I have tried:

I am able to list down the folders present within a drive but don't know how to get all attributes like folder size , count of folders ,percentage of total space etc.

Posted 1-Sep-16 4:09am

dinesh kumar

Updated 1-Sep-16 4:50am

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[no name] 1-Sep-16 10:19am

First thing you need to do is decide if you are creating a Windows Form project or an ASP.NET project. It can't be both like you seem to think it is.

dinesh kumar 1-Sep-16 10:32am

i am creating window form application in visual c# , just started today.
Please suggest what is the better way to design a tool which fullfills all requirements mentioned above.

Since i am new to .net, anything will fine for me :)

[no name] 1-Sep-16 10:36am

A "better way" than what? Learning C# would be a good start.

dinesh kumar 1-Sep-16 10:39am

just tell me one thing now i am able to list tree view for a drive but just thinking how to get other attributes like folder size , last modified, count of folders etc ? Pls give me some basic idea on this.

[no name] 1-Sep-16 10:53am

Start by reading the documentation for the FileInfo class. and the DirectoryInfo class.

Andy Lanng 1-Sep-16 10:28am

Q: "How do I create a window form application in ASP .NET"
A: You can't

dinesh kumar 1-Sep-16 10:34am

can we create in c# ?

Andy Lanng 1-Sep-16 10:38am

Basically, there are several types of app you can write in .Net, but you can't blend them. Windows forms and Web forms are two different types of project.
If you want to use the app yourself then I suggest a Windows App. If you want to share the app over the web then use a web app but you will have a harder time getting to system and folder information.
Also, There are a couple of .Net languages: C# or VB (visual basic). There is no such thing as visual c#.

So that's where you start. A windows form app written in C#

dinesh kumar 1-Sep-16 10:42am

Thanks for clarification .....now i know what i have to do. :)

dinesh kumar 1-Sep-16 10:43am

Actually i already started creating window form app.... tell me one thing now i am able to list tree view of a drive but just thinking how to get other attributes like folder size , last modified, count of folders etc ? Pls give me some basic idea on this.

Andy Lanng 1-Sep-16 11:15am

I think Simon's solution covers that :)

dinesh kumar 1-Sep-16 11:40am

ok thanks

dinesh kumar 21-Sep-16 13:46pm

Hi Andy.....I have developed my application with the help of above links provided by you. But still facing one issue...

Actually we will be using this tool for one of our network drive which have size around 54TB. With this technique it's taking a long..is there any other way by which I can get desired result in min time

Andy Lanng 22-Sep-16 8:10am

Don't pre-load everything. Not event windows explorer does that. Just check one level below where the tree has been expanded to and load the next layer dynamically. Otherwise your trying to load 99.99% of folders that are never even navigated to

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Simon_Whale · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-01T04:50:00

Solution 1

have a read of these

FolderBrowserDialog Class (System.Windows.Forms)[^]

c# - how to list all sub directories in a directory - Stack Overflow[^]

Directory.GetFiles Method (String) (System.IO)[^]

FileInfo.Length Property (System.IO)[^]

All of these pages / code examples should get you started on fulfilling your requirements. If you get stuck please comeback and ask a question and we will help as much as we can, but were not going to do the project for you.

Posted 1-Sep-16 4:50am

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dinesh kumar 1-Sep-16 11:40am

Hi Simon , Thanks for all the links you mentioned above.
All the links given above have given example of console application but i am working on Window form application .

Please guide.Thanks in advance.

Simon_Whale 1-Sep-16 11:43am

You can apply those examples in a win forms application you just have to decide on how you want the information to be displayed. For example you could have a button that opens the folderdialog and when the user has chosen the folder that they want to analyse then that location is then put into a text box.

dinesh kumar 21-Sep-16 13:45pm

Hi Simon.....I have developed my application with the help of above links provided by you. But still facing one issue...

Actually we will be using this tool for one of our network drive which have size around 54TB. With this technique it's taking a long..is there any other way by which I can get desired result in min time ?

Simon_Whale 22-Sep-16 4:02am

I would start by looking at what part of your application is consuming the most time. I suspect it may be the time that you need to traverse the file structure

dinesh kumar 14-Oct-16 8:27am

Yes Simon you are right....traversing the drive which is too long in size is taking long with file info class

dinesh kumar 14-Oct-16 8:28am

And also m using grid view to list all my resultant data.

Simon_Whale 14-Oct-16 9:11am

Dependant on the number of rows have a read of this (this method is best suited to large datasets)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171624(v=vs.110).aspx