Search Specified Type of File in C#

Introduction

If you need to determine the location of a specified file type in all directories of your computer then this article is very helpful for that.

Now first I determine all the directories of your system using a C# program.

Example

This example simply shows the drive names of all drives in the computer and also counts them.

using System;

using System.IO;

namespace ConsoleApplication6

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            int c=0;

            DriveInfo[] TotalDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();

            foreach (DriveInfo drvinfo in TotalDrives)

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Drive{0}", drvinfo.Name);

                c++;

              

            }

            Console.WriteLine("Total no of Drives=" + c);

            Console.ReadKey();

 

        }

    }

}


Output


get-drives.gif

The purpose of the code above is basically to use it in the following code, because when you want to search for a specified type of file in all drives of your computers, you need the name of each

drive of your computer in the method
Directory.GetFiles(DirectoryName, "SpecifiedType", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);.

Now I am writing code that displays all the specified types of a file name with the path, basically this code only returns the file name with path whose extension is "*.*". You can also change the specified type as needed.

Example

This example returns all the specified types of file name with path from all drives of your computer.

using System;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.IO;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication9

{

    public partial class Form1 : Form

    {

        public Form1()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

                private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            DriveInfo[] allDrive = DriveInfo.GetDrives();

 

 

            foreach (DriveInfo d in allDrive)

            {

                string b = d.Name.ToString();

 

                var filename = Directory.GetFiles(b, "*.*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly); // it returns the all file with the path whose type is "*.*".

                foreach (string a in filename)

                {

 

                    MessageBox.Show(a);

                }

            }

        }

    }

   

}

Output

get-specified-type-of-files.gif

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