I want to copy the entire contents of a directory from one location to another in C#.
There doesn't appear to be a way to do this using System.IO
classes without lots of recursion.
There is a method in VB that we can use if we add a reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic
:
new Microsoft.VisualBasic.Devices.Computer().
FileSystem.CopyDirectory( sourceFolder, outputFolder );
This seems like a rather ugly hack. Is there a better way?
Much easier
//Now Create all of the directories
foreach (string dirPath in Directory.GetDirectories(SourcePath, "*",
SearchOption.AllDirectories))
Directory.CreateDirectory(dirPath.Replace(SourcePath, DestinationPath));
//Copy all the files & Replaces any files with the same name
foreach (string newPath in Directory.GetFiles(SourcePath, "*.*",
SearchOption.AllDirectories))
File.Copy(newPath, newPath.Replace(SourcePath, DestinationPath), true);