Drive type

[M K]

I am looping through the drives and only want to process those that are
harddrives and not CD, floppy, dvd etc. What method(if any) or code do I
use?

What I am trying accomplish is to search for a certain type (i.e. *.bat,
*.ico etc) on every harddrive and return the name and path
(also a small graphic if its a graphic type object - ico, bmp etc)

Here is my code so far... Trying to figure out what to put in place of the
XXXXXXXXXX

If you have a better suggestion please feel free to let me know.



Dim strDrives As String()

Dim strThisDrive As String

Dim strThisDir As String

Dim strThisFile As String

Dim myFile As New StreamWriter("l sBMPImages.txt" )

'get list of drives

strDrives = GetLogicalDrive s()

'loop through each drive

For Each strThisDrive In strDrives

'loop through each directory

For Each strThisDir In GetDirectories( strThisDrive)

'get list of files - ONLY drive folders (no CD, floppy etc drives)

'XXXXXXXXXXXX

For Each strThisFile In GetFiles(strThi sDir)

'look for the image we want

If strThisFile.End sWith(strImage) Then

myFile.WriteLin e(strThisFile & vbTab)

End If

Next

Next

Next

myFile.Close()

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Drive type

"M K" <ski_freak@yaho o.com> schrieb:[color=blue]
>I am looping through the drives and only want to process those that are
> harddrives and not CD, floppy, dvd etc. What method(if any) or code do I
> use?[/color]

<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=setcddoorst atus&lang=en>
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/code/filesystem/#DriveType>

..NET 2.0 will contain the class 'System.IO.Driv eInfo' which has a property
'DriveType'.

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[Bob S]

Re: Drive type

Till then, you can use the GetDriveType API function via P/Interop

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:Otg6TiarFH A.2064@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> "M K" <ski_freak@yaho o.com> schrieb:[color=green]
>>I am looping through the drives and only want to process those that are
>> harddrives and not CD, floppy, dvd etc. What method(if any) or code do I
>> use?[/color]
>
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=setcddoorst atus&lang=en>
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/code/filesystem/#DriveType>
>
> .NET 2.0 will contain the class 'System.IO.Driv eInfo' which has a property
> 'DriveType'.
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>[/color]

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Drive type

"Bob S" <staheli.bobatg maildotcom> schrieb:[color=blue]
> Till then, you can use the GetDriveType API function via P/Interop[/color]

That's what I recommended...

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[M K]

Re: Drive type

Thanks .. that did the trick

not sure what P/Interop means as some of you developers seem to think
everyone knows as much
as you do but i've leared to live with that :)

Thanks again,
Mark

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
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> "Bob S" <staheli.bobatg maildotcom> schrieb:[color=green]
>> Till then, you can use the GetDriveType API function via P/Interop[/color]
>
> That's what I recommended...
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>[/color]

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Drive type

"M K" <ski_freak@yaho o.com> schrieb:[color=blue]
> not sure what P/Interop means[/color]

There is a huge chapter about platform invoke in the documentation :-).

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>