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DirectoryCountFileSystemObjects Method (String, String, DirectoryEnumerationOptions, PathFormat)
[AlphaFS] Counts file system objects: files, folders or both) in a given directory.

Namespace: Alphaleonis.Win32.Filesystem
Assembly: AlphaFS (in AlphaFS.dll) Version: 2.0
Syntax
public static long CountFileSystemObjects(
	string path,
	string searchPattern,
	DirectoryEnumerationOptions options,
	PathFormat pathFormat
)

Parameters

path
Type: SystemString
The directory path.
searchPattern
Type: SystemString

The search string to match against the names of directories in path. This parameter can contain a

combination of valid literal path and wildcard (WildcardStarMatchAll and WildcardQuestion)

characters, but does not support regular expressions.

options
Type: Alphaleonis.Win32.FilesystemDirectoryEnumerationOptions
DirectoryEnumerationOptions flags that specify how the directory is to be enumerated.
pathFormat
Type: Alphaleonis.Win32.FilesystemPathFormat
Indicates the format of the path parameter(s).

Return Value

Type: Int64
The counted number of file system objects.
Exceptions
ExceptionCondition
UnauthorizedAccessExceptionAn exception is thrown case of access errors.
See Also