Files and Folders - Compression
Multiple-file, searchable, streaming compression library implemented natively in .NET.
This project will give you the tools needed to compress and decompress files using the Deflate method of compression, and to read and write standard Zip files.
12 Oct 2011
Tadeusz Dracz
A library to create, modify, and extract Zip archives.
14 Nov 2005
Marius Daniel Ciorecan
A library that provides an easy to use class (CDecompressLibrary) that will detect and decompress into memory buffers an archive file (zip, gz, tar.gz).
24 Nov 2010
Michal Stehlik
Simple way how to pack data into one file
Adding zip/unzip easily, no LIBS or DLLs, with an elegant and powerful API.
10 Dec 2009
Agola Kisira Odero
This article describes arithmetic compression with an implemetnation in C#.
A utility stripping your source code to the essential core and then compressing it to a nice CodeProject article attachment.
A comparison of these two free zip libraries, complete with a multi-threaded VB.NET class wrapper for each.
Zip/Unzip using java.util.zip from managed code.
This article shall describe an approach that may be used to collect files from multiple locations and zip them up into a single zipped folder.
28 Sep 2009
Christopher Hahn
SharpZipLib is a pretty great Open Source compression library for .NET. Out of the box, however, it does have a few problems with archives for files that are larger than 2GB. ZipBuilder was created to provide a convenient way to let people programmatically create archive packages with large files.
25 May 2009
Serhiy Perevoznyk
A C# wrapper for the Info-ZIP library.
9 Apr 2008
Chesnokov Yuriy
The article provides a dynamic Huffman compression and decompression class and a console application written in C++.
This article shall describe an approach that may be used to extract Jar files.
5 Dec 2008
Leung Yat Chun
This article describe how to perform list, extract, add and operations to archives using CAKE3.
14 May 2008
Anders M. Mikkelsen
A very small library for unzipping zip files/streams.
5 Dec 2008
Leung Yat Chun
This article explain how to create virtual filelist, directory tree and how to implement drag and drop using CAKE3.
This article shall describe an approach that may be used to extract Jar files.
An MFC class to unpack Ear files, with multithread and GUI support.
14 Dec 2008
Leung Yat Chun
This article explain how to use cake3's threading support.
An article on how use GZipStream with string as input parameter.
Using GZipStream to extract a text log and list the result in a grid.
Files and Folders - Configuration Files
5 Nov 2008
Tolgahan ALBAYRAK
Read, Write, Save INI files without using Windows APIs.
How to use .NET settings files in class library projects.
14 May 2013
Serdar Kurbanov
Library for extracting configuration settings from custom configuration file is provided.
19 Feb 2014
Alexandros Pappas
This article provides a program to demonstrate how to save and load all control values to user settings.
13 Jan 2009
John Whitmire
Using custom configuration sections without having to understand them... much.
XMLProfile implements a class to read and write XML profile files that is consistent with the MFC set of profile functions. Conversion functions to allow reading/writing both INI and XML profiles are included. A CWinApp-derived class provides drop-in replacement of the standard MFC profile functio
Here's some lightweight C# code for reading and writing CSV files.
24 Jan 2012
formlesstree4
An easy to use managed class to handle INI files.
22 Jan 2009
Bjoern Hillebrand
A component that stores application content to an XML file.
15 Nov 2010
Ludvik Jerabek
Read and write to INI files in VB.NET and VBScript
Configuration files can be enhanced and extended using config-variables and if-logic
Contrary to several articles, connection strings may be saved to app.config with just a few lines of code.
Complete source code line counter for .cs and .vb files (not an addon)
27 Jan 2007
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Implement XML application profiles that are similar (but not too similar) to using INI files
11 Jan 2008
Ruben Jönsson
A class library that maintains persistent variables, properties and data between sessions in XML files. It supports default values for new variables and events when the values in the XML file are changed
A simple mechanism for partitioning settings for development, acceptance, and production.
10 Nov 2008
Slava Khristich
Edit config file at app setup and after. Describes recursive node parsing and populating a tree view control.
13 Dec 2010
Antony Highsky
This article describes how to store application settings in the machine.config file and how to expose these settings as strongly typed properties using .NET’s Application Settings architecture.
Configuration files can be enhanced and extended using config-variables.
Flexible and easy to use configuration section handler with change monitoring
Read and write any configuration file with ease
6 Jan 2012
Aleksey Shurtygin
An easy way to manage application configuration with a wide range of options for storage.
Permits simple access to ini files
An STL based C++ utility class to parse structured config files.
Yet another but a little bit different INI files parser.
17 Jun 2007
Mats Gudmundsson
A simple class that stores settings in an XML file located anywhere. This class can be used directly as a visual component in VS. Use this as it is or as an inspiration for something better!
22 Oct 2003
Daniel Fisher (lennybacon)
This article describes how to create a custom configuration file AppSettings reader class.
An INI file enumerator class using C#.
Class for interfacing with INI files.
15 Jan 2007
felixLindemann
Handling INI files in VB.NET.
A very simple to use configuration reader/writer for .NET.
Generic reading of configuration sections.
Files & Folders - File Formats
19 Jul 2007
Hans Dietrich
This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.
XDD-Tools for developer , count source code line,copy project file, remove comment in source code.
This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.
PDF File Writer is a C# class library allowing .NET applications to create PDF files. Version 1.5 Barcode support (Code-128, Code-39, EAN-13, UPC-A)
11 Dec 2008
Hans Dietrich
The XPEInfo APIs allow you to extract information from a PE file. Included in the download is a Windows demo app, and a console app that tests whether a PE file is valid, whether it is 64-bit, contains debug info, is a .Net executable, or is signed. Sample cmd files are provided.
26 Nov 2013
Wong Shao Voon
A portable and easy-to-use C++ file library to read and write structured data
This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.
PDF File Analyzer is designed to read, parse, and display the internal structure of PDF files. Version 1.2 Process Cross Reference Streams
25 May 2013
Alberto Molero
This article describes the file format NBT and shows how can be implemented in a real application to store data.
Converting PDF into bitmaps without installing extra components.
How to use Unicode in INI files.
A fully featured and cross platform friendly way to handle *.ini and *.cfg files.
An easy to use class based around unrar.dll.
15 Aug 2008
blackjack2150
An article on converting image files (BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF) to PDF
30 Jan 2002
Brad P. Taylor
A template class to making loading Adobe Photoshop files easier
Tiff To PDF conversion Source Code.
An object oriented class automating the creation of PDF files from any file using freeware tools.
Useful functions to retrieve information from PE files
22 Jun 2009
Henrik Thomsen
Legacy file formats, such as UN-EDIFACT with a record per line and fixed-length fields, still exist and are widely used for B2B transactions. A tool that can convert legacy files to human-readable XML might come in handy.
An article on direct ANSI to Unicode text document conversion from the source code.
An article on how to read/write a line from/to a text file encoded by ANSI/Unicode type.
Make use of the comma separated values file format.
25 Jan 2000
Claude Gagnon
A simple class for writing AutoCad DXF files
Files and Folders - File System
15 Sep 2011
Nathan Stiles
A class written to easily handle long paths (32K in length) using .NET.
Having too many files in one folder causes file manipulation to slow down the program. The class presented here is intended to provide a tree-like folder structure for file writing.
The complete deletion of files leads us to understand the file system and OS even more deeply.
A Class Library for building Forms with a folder navigation TreeView and form specific ListViews that can be tailored for your application and behave like Windows Explorer. Full documentation.
A C++ library to help in parsing an NTFS volume, file record and attributes.
An efficient solution for finding files.
19 Jan 2010
Rajkumar-Kannan
This article helps users understand Sparse files on Windows and how to create and manipulate these files from within their Windows applications.
21 Jul 2010
Udi Cohen
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Utility that sorts the files' table in the FAT32 file system.
18 Dec 2010
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
How to get all the events you want - whether you need them or not.
18 Dec 2010
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Use the demo application (from Part 1) to observe events posted when creating files in the watched folder
20 Oct 2006
John Storer II
The .NET framework doesn't have a Directory.Copy() method. So I developed one myself.
Describes how to create a significantly faster enumerator for the attributes of all the files in a directory.
18 Apr 2014
Apriorit Inc, Andy Bisikalo
In this article, we’ll consider Dynamic Disks. We are going to explore the program implementation with the help of the LDM (Logical Disk Manager) technology.
24 Feb 2006
Massimo Beatini
Sometimes the search engine integrated with Explorer doesn't work fine, especially when I try to find text contained into files, so I decided to build my own search program.
5 Mar 2005
Alexandru Ghiondea
Presents an application used to process files within a file structure using event handling and plug-ins.
How to create and manipulate NTFS Junction Points (aka. symbolic links) in .NET
This service watches for filesystem events in directories and runs specified programs in response to those events.
31 Mar 2013
Luc Archambault
An application that monitors a directory and maintains a copy of it.
8 Aug 2005
Venkata Kancharla
A Windows service which monitors the directory changes, writes an entry in the event log about the change, notifies the change to the users by sending a mail, and also converts the input XML file into a DataSet.
21 Apr 2010
Kasic Slobodan
Easily assign your extension to your application and set an icon.
An interface that encapsulates file-system folders and files that includes implementations for the file system and memory.
Yet another implementation to enumerate files
This article explains the basic techniques and VS.NET project structure for creating and implementing a simple C# FileSystemWatcher Windows Service
18 Jan 2005
InteractiveLogic
This article describes how to assign an icon to a folder in Windows Explorer, using C#.
This is an advanced manipulation of the FileSystemWatcher object.
Avoid swapping out valuable file system cache of other applications when accessing large files that you know are not accessed again later.
BlockingFileObserver - an IEnumerable implementation
Simple C#/.NET tip to copy an entire directory tree to another directory
13 Aug 2003
Andrew Boisen
Class Library that recursively searches a given directory and returns an ArrayList of files that can be bound straight to a control.
A class to check disk information like total size, free space, used space, and clean up.
Touches a file with specified date/time so that its access, creation or modified date is changed.
A way to convert a folder into a file...
A set of classes which can get differences between two folders and which can synchronize them according to basic rules
A window service that can copy and delete files across domains to keep 2 folders synchronized
Describes a directory tree documenter that outputs XML.
Easy implmentation of folder watcher class, by wrapping the logic and events.
An easy to use file system class supporting threads.
21 Apr 2004
Shail_Srivastav
An enhanced Windows Explorer application which consists of a tree view where someone can see the files available in the existing drives up to certain levels.
Quick directory copy to another directory.
18 Apr 2004
Srinivas Varukala
Scans through the directory recursively and calculates the total size.
25 May 2007
DumpsterJuice
A quick example of how to batch-
This file system watcher allows you to monitor all file system activity on a target server.
This project shows a technique to archive old files and to optimize the backup of your company.
A C++ implementation of the Windows FileSystemObject object. It wraps and extends the standard FileSystemObject interfaces (methods/properties). Now, C++ developers can manipulate folders and files without their own Win32 API code. They can take advantage of the well-tested Windows FileSystemObject.
The article fills in the gap for the .NET framework to copy directory contents.
Code for deleting 0 length files.
It can be used for archiving files as all reads and writes occur on one actual file in the underlying system. Additionally, it can be used to stream data out in a client-server environment. Further, it can be used as a file system for a hobbyist operating system or embedded operating system.
Workaround to get the correct LocalDateTime of files no matter which date settings your computer has.
Views records from File Server Audit program
Drag 'n Drop asynchronous files from an external server or device
How to implement creation and extraction of Microsoft CAB files
My entry to the lean-and-mean programming competition.
A native .NET class for saving URLs: text-only, HTML page, HTML archive, or HTML complete.
18 May 2010
Martin Brandl
Easily determine the version of a specified file or the version of the current process.
28 Jun 2005
Anthony Baraff
Exploring the fastest way to read structures from a binary file in C#.
An article explaning how to read backup files created with the Microsoft Tape Format (MTF) specification.
A complete wrapper for the Win32 INI APIs
30 Dec 2011
Richard Chambers
A small function library for managing a file containing data records that have unique keys or indexes.
This article will introduce how to validate a text file based on LINQ.
25 Jul 2011
Praveen Kullu
An Attribute changer which can change attributes of files and folders
16 Aug 2010
Mr.PoorEnglish
Avoid foot-traps while using StreamReader / StreamWriter
28 Jun 2011
Pascal Ganaye
A small utility that will help you get rid of the hard to remove protected or system folders
31 Jul 2005
Pascal Ganaye
I use a procedure based on batch files to copy various versions of my project. I was a bit fed up to wait for the batch file to copy hundreads of files and wrote this small utility to speed up the process. I hope some of you will find it useful.
This article explores the foundations of file handling and serialization in VB.NET
24 Aug 2009
Nish Sivakumar
This is an LCS based diff library that was written for the Code Project Lean and Mean diff engine contest
A .NET control to assist in the creation and manipualtion of *.ini files
13 Sep 2008
Mycroft Holmes
Utility class to import and export CSV files.
10 Aug 2002
Sreenivas Vemulapalli
This tool is used to split large files into smaller chunks and merge them back into a single file.
11 May 2013
CognitiveFeedback
General solution to Serializing and Deserializing CSV files.
A class to manipulate INI files, for .NET 2.0.
The article shows how to get the detailed information of a file like comments, author...
A way to modify Zip archives without extracting them completely.
27 Nov 2008
Etienne Rached
Change created, modified and accessed time
Reads binary records. If the record structure changes, you don't need to change the source code.
This is a utility class that will allow you to parse fixed-width or delimited text files in an event-driven model. Simply specify the file location, the format type (fixed vs. delimited) and add TextField members to the strongly-typed TextFieldCollection.
How to use VB.NET to build a Windows Service that monitor folders looking for files in ZIP format (and unzip them).
A pair of classes to read the ID3 tags from either a WMA or MP3 file.
13 Aug 2009
Matthew Hazlett
A file diff utility.
An article on processing a File using the FileSystemWatcher class
This article describes a recursive method for copying files to different volumes.
1 Nov 2004
Leonardo Pessoa
Some time ago, I faced a different concept of file when I worked on a mainframe: one that holds multiple other files. Since then, I tried to reproduce this behavior in .NET.
This application divides files into groups
14 Jan 2004
Yiltan Bitirim
How to prepare an application for working with random files using VB.NET
Component to load data from files or DB connection, gets the data asynchronously and fires an event when it finishes. All the read data is loaded to a DataTable
4 Feb 2003
Samar Aarkotti
Getting information of Files and Directories
Sample code for using FileMapping on .NET.
23 Jun 2007
Leung Yat Chun
This article describes how to use CAKE3, which is a wrapper component for many archiver DLLs,
Article on Whidbey File Management
7 Aug 2007
Raymund Macaalay
How to monitor multiple files using FileSystemWatcher.
Automatically process incoming files by using the DirectoryInfo class instead of FileSystemWatcher.
Introduction to the Resources .resx and Resources files
Files & Folders - General
A class that enables you to easily retrieve a file's version information.
All about generating PDF files for Indic scripts using iText/iTextSharp.
This simple tool will add method-entry logs in source files.
How to show thumbnails of XPS documents.
CTextFileDocument lets you write and read text files with different encodings (ASCII, UTF-8, Unicode 16 little/big endian are supported).
This simple class shows how to iterate file names by using STL iterator interface.
A class that allows you to create self extracting executables for use in distribution or setup programs
15 Jul 2009
Chris Maunder
A simple utility to change a file - or multiple files - "Modified" time.
28 Aug 2002
Joshua Jensen
Class and application to recursively or non-recursively match files or directories based on a wildcard pattern.
Article showing how to read file and folder icons from C#, and then building a management class to maintain file icons in up to two ImageList objects.
22 Sep 2005
Thomas Serface
A CFileFind with include/exclude filters.
This class wraps up ReadDirectoryChangesW.
Drag and drop a file to a Windows folder from your application without using Shell Extensions.
Instructions on how to implement _fseeki64 and _ftelli64.
19 Jul 2007
David Pritchard
A class, derived from CStdioFile, which transparently reads and writes both Unicode and multibyte files. Version 1.5.
19 May 2003
Hans Dietrich
XFile extends the Win32 file functions with a non-MFC class that includes functions to implement file rollover, file shrinking, file compare, buffered writes, mapped file reads, zipping, and automatic file size limits.
A class that allows fast and easy file/directory operation
16 Aug 2002
Samuel Gonzalo
Search for files by name, size, date, text contents. The search can be performed in a single folder or including it's subfolders.
2 Mar 2003
Chris Losinger
Scans a folder for sub-folders and files. Simple and easy to use.
19 Nov 2001
Nish Sivakumar
A class for packing and unpacking file archives.
A wrapper class for easy use of OLE structured storage.
7 Feb 2011
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Windows service for synchronizing folders
15 Jul 2009
Jeffrey Walton, Jordan Walters
A UTF-16 class derived from CStdioFile for reading and writing Unicode files
30 Mar 2004
Armen Hakobyan
Class for getting file version information
25 May 2010
Leung Yat Chun
This article describes how to uses IShellFolder to list special / virtual directories using C#.
This class reads numeric data and stores it for easy access. The data can be accessed by (row, column) from any data reduction routines you may have.
11 Oct 2006
Johan Rosengren
A class for common directory and file list operations.
11 Jun 2007
Hans Dietrich
XFolderSize is a non-MFC class that collects folder size, folder count, and file count based on starting folder.
16 Aug 2002
Samuel Gonzalo
A class to work with path strings, to parse command line arguments and get file properties
Include Analyzer (Unwanted header file inclusion removal)
A tool to undelete a file in NTFS and a short tutorial on NTFS
24 Nov 1999
Antonio Tejada Lacaci
This class gathers file information recursively by directory and, as a bonus track, it also calculates the 32bit file-checksum and CRC
17 Jan 2009
Abdallah Gomah
How to extract icons from EXE/DLL, split/merge icons, and get icons associated with files.
30 May 2003
Hans Dietrich
XHtmlLog converts delimited text log files to HTML for display by a browser. Callback functions allow the output to be customized prior to HTML generation.
26 Nov 2010
Antonio Sandoval
Wrapper C# class written in C++\CLI and a sample implementation in C# to render PDF files.
A wrapper class for path strings based on (and improving) the Shell Lightweight utility API.
A software to count lines in our source code.
13 Jan 2004
Louka Dlagnekov
This class is intended to alleviate the task of finding files and folders in a directory with options such as search filters; exclude file filters, exclude directory filters
14 Jun 2003
Hans Dietrich
XFileProperties demonstrates the use of CXFileProperties, a class that displays a modeless dialog similar to the Windows file properties dialog.
A portable software to import, export, delete, rename, view, edit and execute files in TrueCrypt containers without requiring administrative privileges
10 Apr 2003
Joseph Dempsey
Provides a class capable of providing a CFile sytle interface with no MFC dependecies and more importantly providing the ability to read/write if full overlapped IO mode with a user defined callback between each segment read/write.
18 Jan 2001
Peter Pearson
An article on importing multiple sets of string values into a program from files (e.g. CSV files).
25 Oct 2001
Joseph M. Newcomer
The secrets of File Handles and their relationship to File *, CFile, CStdioFile, etc.
Handle your program settings easily with multiple storage schemes and for several frameworks.
This class helps you to monitor files. You are notified if a file is modified outside the program.
30 Mar 2005
Johan Rosengren
A small helper class for reading, writing and appending to/from text files.
An article explaining how to convert logical offsets returned by FSCTL_GET_FILE_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS to physical offsets from the beginning of the disk.
15 May 2007
Joseph Guadagno
By now, many of us have seen customized folders in Windows XP and earlier, i.e. folders like My Documents, My Pictures and so on. I intend to show you how to create these customized folder views using C#.
Unique folder protection that issues Windows Class IDS to protect folders.
24 Feb 2010
Ahamad Alisha
Restricting the user to browse and select from a particular folder
An ATL control for monitoring your directories and/or files for updates, creation and deletion
Windows Find is a nice tool but sometimes you want a little more. This program/tool does just that.
A simple XML style logging class for all purposes.
A class built around the use of ShGetFileInfo() function.
6 Jun 2005
Birender Singh
CreateDir function creates folders and subfolders thereby completing the whole path. This function overcomes the limitations of CreateDirectory Win32 API.
9 Nov 2006
Najam ul Hassan
How to access the Summary Information Property Set of a file, using Visual C++.
16 May 2002
Davide Pizzolato
Disc and memory files within the same object
CEnum is used for enumeration of files and directories using wildcard matching (globbing)
How to read M4A file information such as author and song title.
14 May 2003
Hans Dietrich
XReverse reverses a text file line-by-line, so that what was the last line becomes the first line. This is useful when you want to view server logs, for example, with the latest line displayed at the top. Memory-mapped files helps to make XReverse very fast.
20 Jan 2010
Rei Resurreccion
Experience small and compact desktop icons view in Vista and Windows 7.
A Port of ::FindFirstFile to Boost.Range and Boost.Foreach
Simple reading, accessing and writing of INI configuration files on Windows/Linux/Unix using a cross-platform and fully Unicode/MBCS/UTF-8 aware library
Transactional files, missing in Windows, allow file manipulation that can be rolled-back to the original state, and retain their integrity in case of failure. It can be used for any manipulation, including accelerated alternatives to database manipulation (to be discussed in a follow-up article).
26 Aug 2009
Pete Souza IV
This project is a response to the file diff. CodeProject contest due August 31st, 2009
List sections and section data (key-value pairs). Displays a key value and creates/modifies a key-value pair
This article describes two classes, one for splitting a file into smaller chunks and another for merging smaller files into one. Also there is a utility written using these classes.
21 May 2003
Dominique Doucet
Utility to quickly archive any project to a Zip file.
14 May 2002
Jason Henderson
A simple class derived from CFile that will handle many of your logging needs.
A set of classes that allows you to search for strings in text files and replace them.
An article providing classes to split and mend files.
Explains how you can have a program delete itself once it has finished running without a reboot
This article shows you how to construct a class to copy files and folder trees with an optional progress indicator.
Class that allows file operations without using SHFileOperation
23 Sep 2003
Vitali Halershtein
Article describes how to create a file system spy application
27 Feb 2004
Emilio Guijarro
A MFC class to store an application's profile in an XML file.
19 Apr 2005
Sergey Okhotny
Fixing System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory() security bug.
25 Feb 2010
365days.enjoy
The way to calculate a collection of folders size with VC++
15 Dec 2004
Christopher Diggins
Finding the size of the file in C++ in a portable manner is not trivial!
How applications determine the last visited folders for Open/Save Common Dialogs in Win2K.
Function to determine if a file name is valid.
Article that explains drag, drop, cut, copy and paste operations on lists of files using MFC
VBScript code which can rename multiple files in a folder by replacing certain patterns and extensions.
a simple class that implements a rotary (circular) text file
An article about how we can notify our application that a file has been changed by another application.
This is a simple tool to change created, modified and accessed dates of any file/folder.
An article about creating Self-Extracting files with integrated compression
How to create a Self-Extracted executable with minimal overhead
22 Sep 2003
Elias Bachaalany
An example of writing a self-extracting archive using pack and unpack routines.
10 Sep 2005
Jason Q Zhang
An introduction to NTFS's Change Journal and a simple tool to operate
17 Dec 2007
Balaji Lakshmanan
Using the Unicode version of CreateFileW, we can overcome the PathTooLongException error on file operations.
A class for splitting a large text file into equal amounts of smaller sub_text files
Code to recursively search folders to display file type information and icons
This article tells how to copy a directory recursively using WMI
Using XML to store settings.
29 May 2008
Abbas Ali Butt
Select image and folder, then against the click button set the image as background at that folder.
This article discusses how to handle file system notification events.
27 Feb 2007
A. Bhandari a.k.a Amit Bhandari
Batch file renaming utility using threading
Two classes using cabinet.dll to create or extract from MS-Cabinet Files
15 Mar 2003
hector santos
An utility to search files in Environment's Directories
27 Nov 2006
Dennis Kuppens
An article about CProperties, a helper class to easily store application properties in an INI file.
4 Nov 2005
Jaroslav Klima
This article describes a very simple library which provides functions for reading and writing lines of text from/to a file on disk, supporting both ANSI and Unicode.
9 Apr 2006
Esben Sundgaard
An article on getting the size of all folders
A class derived from CStdioFile to read and write from an UTF-8 encoded file.
A project to create PDF files using text editor and digitally sign them.
Browse for a Source File, and either Copy it to a Destination location, or delete that file
An easy way to get the icons of remote files if only the extensions are known.
An article on Protocolling / Logging
This class creates from 1-9 segments of a single file which can be then desgmented.Useful for moving larger file on floppies.
21 Feb 2002
Jonathan Pouliot
This article shows you how to delete all the files and subfolders in a selected folder
How to monitor a folder's activity with delegates and events threadsafe
6 Feb 2001
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe
A class to monitor free disk space on a nominated drive
30 Mar 2002
sultan_of_6string
A class that searches a directory tree for files using a worker thread, keeping the main app. usable.
7 Jul 2005
Automation Software Engineer (A.S.E)
Reusable class to enumerate files and folders with combined file extensions, example: *.cpp,*.h,*.dsw.
Serialize and access your application's config values.
Create directories and copy files by traverse function
Function that deletes whole of a directory structure.
First article in a series about useful classes in .NET.
Used to convert Text Files to a different code-page
Splitting a path into its components.
Prints last 10 lines of a file
A class that implements a simple circular file.
This is a small program that can extract email addresses from files that are not necessarily text files.
A file / folder selection control that hides the selection until needed.
Scan a hard drive file structure and map it out in a TreeView control with C#.
An article on finding files created before a date.
How to do image classification using file header information.
Decompressing Gzip files.
27 Apr 2003
Robert James Metcalf
This class archives files together. It can compress them, decompress them & decompress them from a resource. It uses it's own format and not the normal zip format
This class splits a source file into many smaller pieces which can be distributed accross the web or on floppy disk.
A console application to read data from a Windows Installer database
A basic .NET file browser fully based on the framework
Version APIs wrapped in a simple component.
Using C to read and write INI file
14 Sep 2007
Chetan Raiyani
You can read any length of line from the source file. No restrictions.
When you want to find a virus or a trojan, you can find fixed bytes by comparing and then search it out from your local disk
Folder utilities such as creating, removing, copying folders and getting folder's space.
This program simply generates a batch file that you can extract your .00x files
Simplicity is the core value of XP. Automate the check-in process in VSS to simplify the Build process.
An article on a Browse Dialog which helps you to select multilple files and folders.
The program divides the folders into a wanted folder or path according to a number that the user will enter.
22 Jul 2008
Jans Mary Suncy
Copying files from source locaion to target location based on the file creation date
31 Jul 2002
Chandra Hundigam
A brief introduction to the .NET System.IO.Directory class
This is an inline enumeration of files instead of building an array first.
11 Jul 2006
Lampros Giampouras
Converts any file to an array of bits.
THis atricle so some useful infomation any type of files and basic file attributes also
A simple function to retrieve file information as file version, product info etc.
13 Jul 2006
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"Auto Complete" setting in a DOS prompt enable users to traverse folders using tab key
A simple method to create a shortcut to an executable file.
1 Jan 2010
Leung Yat Chun
Allow users to make virtual directories and use them via a similar interface as DirectoryInfo.
Files and Folders - Utilities
Automatically creating multipart Zip files.
Flexible CSV reader/writer with progress reporting and many file format variations.
Monitors log files and displays text as it is appended to the file
22 Nov 2012
chuck in st paul
This is a utility program for bulk/batch renaming of files that demonstrates using and creating events
13 Mar 2013
Manfred Bittersam
Compare binary files.
Monitor files and when they change, copy them to specified folders.
31 Jul 2008
Michael Ulmann
A simple .NET PDF merger that supports header and footer text.
A utility to find any duplicate file in your hard drives using MD5 hashing.
8 Jan 2009
Armen Hakobyan
An article on reading file sectors directly from disk using logical offsets
14 Dec 2013
Igor Krupitsky
This Windows application lets you merge image and PDF files in a given folder into one PDF file.
Create useful directory restore points, quickly and easily.
A comprehensive way to manage all of your downloaded zip files.
14 Sep 2012
sbarnes
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WPF and Form utilities that do a better job copying and comparing large files on cranky hardware. Plea for software manufacturers to consider fault tolerance.
A tiny tool to unhide files on a USB drive.
Full and incremental backup of files.
1 May 2009
Mitch Stephens
A WinForms application with command line execution that scans a folder tree, creates one or more Zip files, and emails them to a Gmail account along with a formatted message.
An application to preview your documents and files such as PDF, Doc, JPG, PPT, XSL.
A simplified file renamer
Automatically unblocks and extracts Zip files in a monitored folder.
29 Sep 2012
Manfred Bittersam
A freeware file searcher in C#
25 Aug 2011
Sebastian Solnica
PDB files indexer (using file archive as a repository).
2 Feb 2009
Predrag Tomasevic
Using OpenOffice to convert different document types to PDF.
1 Aug 2008
Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft)
Surprisingly, neither the C++ runtime library nor the Win32 Platform SDK provides any routines to read and write Unicode text files. This article provides high performance routines to read all types of Unicode files (both UTF-16 and UTF-8) as well as ANSI files.
This article describes how to write an application to monitor text log files
15 Nov 2011
Indrajeet Valera
File Cleaner - Zip & delete old files
Using Word Automation for converting files to XML, RTF, TXT, HTML, etc. formats.
26 Apr 2013
Pieter Alec Myburgh
Folder Encrypted / Decrypter with standolone function
A dual pane file manager for Windows XP.
This article introduces and describes a framework that allows the creation of managed plug-ins for the Total Commander file manager.
23 Feb 2006
wenjunw.comnt8
An article on separating your working file from Visual Studio .NET 2003 solutions.
Decode Resource Interchange Files (AVI, WAV, RMID...) using this pure C# parser.
31 Jul 2008
thund3rstruck
Interaction with CBZ/CBR comic books in C#.
Split huge files into many small pieces as specified by the user.
19 Sep 2008
thund3rstruck
Renaming files with a multi-file renamer.
Utilty to quickly split and merge files.
A nifty tool to help people track changes in files in real-time
17 Oct 2008
CodeBureau - Matt Simner
A C# console application for deleting files based on age.
A simple search class to search a directory and all sub-directories in the background for files with a defined search pattern.
A control to synchronize folder contents.
16 May 2008
Ashutosh Phoujdar
A small utility to verify checksums.
A utility to read, edit, encrypt, decrypt, write XmlStore files.
2 Nov 2009
Etienne Rached
Backup or save or convert MSN Messenger custom emoticons to GIF files
5 Aug 2011
Igor Krupitsky
This Windows application lets you deleted all of your pages from your PDF files except for the first one.
25 Jan 2008
Vivek Krishnamurthy
A disk analyzer using C#.
Customizing XP with Vista features
File Find is fast, especially if you have multiple physical drives; version 2.1.0.17.
A re-usable file finder algorithm using hashtables.
6 Nov 2008
Pedram Behroozi
Separate your files into pages, so you can view your really large files in less than a second!
An article on easily finding the paths of commonly used user specific directories.
A file manager app with Clipboard interaction and drag and drop support.
Parsing Zipped plain text files and saving results to a local database with .NET 3.5, LINQ to SQL, BackgroundWorker, and UI.
20 Nov 2008
Micah Burnett
A simple OO backup utility that preserves full file paths
A tool that finds duplicate files in your system.
A shell extension to associate applications with particular XML namespaces.
18 Apr 2010
kim.david.hauser
Open a cmd console from almost anywhere in Explorer via context menu
Helps UNIX / Linux administrators to analyze VMSTAT files for system resource utilization.
1 Aug 2007
lost in transition
UnZipper is a file extraction tool for decompressing files of a selected type/file extension out of a Zip or a compressed folder.
Application for seaching similar kinds of files in different folders.
23 Jul 2009
Corey Fournier
Demonstrates how to parse objects in a PDF and inflate FlateDecode sections.
How to read changes from log files as they are written to. Similar to "tail" from UNIX.
An article on recursively counting lines of code in files from a given directory.
21 Sep 2009
PIEBALDconsult
A line-by-line file diff utility
An article about methods to recursively list all files in a given directory.
4 Jun 2008
Ashutosh Phoujdar
A small utility program that can help in visualizing the existing directory structure in terms of graphs.
22 Feb 2006
Philipos Sakellaropoulos
An application to unzip multiple Zip files residing in a folder and subfolders. Demonstrates the use of the BackgroundWorker component.
An article on the implementation and usage of a multi-threaded single/multi file copying tool.
4 Dec 2008
interface Mirror
Use FileSystemWatcher in a practical scenario
Enhanced file renaming utility to improve on the "ren" command provided by MS DOS.
A custom listbox control to help visually manipulate data.
Track all your files, locally, on CD-ROMs, and on removables.
10 Sep 2008
Mayur Chauhan
An UI tool that can be used to zip and unzip a file.
28 Dec 2006
Agus Kurniawan
Getting file version information using C# 2.0.
17 Oct 2008
Riaan Lehmkuhl
TSVN Post-Update hook utility for using svn:externals with a space in the directory name.
9 Jul 2004
Arunkumar Viswanathan
Very useful in running as a scheduled task to delete unwanted files accumulating in a directory
27 Jan 2008
Ashwini K Singh
This tool is for the tester and developer to track any file system activity to a particular folder
A simple C#/.NET utility to split files (upto 2 GB) to parts.
27 Jul 2008
Keith Rimington
Create a versatile line reading application using the .NET StreamReader and the DataGridView.
Helper class for building filter string for Windows file dialogs
19 Mar 2004
Per R. Anderson
Console App in C# to rename files in a directory
14 Sep 2004
vivekthangaswamy
Folder, drive, directory browser application.
Parsing C++ header and CPP files for class names and methods.
Program to inventory directories and tally files.
FileFixLib is a small file utility to enable precise cutting, splitting and joining of files.
22 Nov 2006
Chris Hambleton
A utility that substitutes file names from a file collection into a text template.
A simple parser for VERSIONINFO resources contained in a DLL or EXE.
30 Sep 2008
SurendraKishore
This program gets the list of softwares installed on Windows running machine
10 Oct 2006
Daniel Grondin
A simple HTML and plain-text logger.
An app to synchronize up to seven folders with System.IO.FileSystemWatcher in .NET.
15 Nov 2005
John Jiyang Hou
This program can dump a file to the standard output in Windows.
This is a very simple tool to edit Unix files in Windows.
A simple tool for collecting files, written in C#, with shell32 support.
An article on data validation with a flat file schema generated in Flat File Checker.
Restoring UI Responsiveness FromContinuations (Asynch file IO)
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