Files and Folders

C#Windows.NETDevIntermediateprocessingDataGridViewstreamdirectoryfile

Files and Folders - Compression

Processing Standard Zip Files with C# compression/decompression classes

11 Feb 2014

Uzi Granot

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.

Zip/Unzip using the java.util.zip .NET namespace and more

12 Feb 2013

dmihailescu

Zip/Unzip using java.util.zip from managed code.

.NET2.0WinXPVistaVS2005C#2.0XMLDevADO.NETIntermediate

Zip Utils - clean, elegant, simple, C++/Win32

19 Sep 2012

ljw1004

Adding zip/unzip easily, no LIBS or DLLs, with an elegant and powerful API.

VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS.NET2003eVC4.0Embedded

SharpZipLib or DotNetZip... Which should you use?

5 Aug 2012

pdoxtader

A comparison of these two free zip libraries, complete with a multi-threaded VB.NET class wrapper for each.

.NET2.0WinXPWin2003Vista.NET3.0VB9.0.NET3.5VBWindows.NET

.NET Native Multiple File Compression

16 Jan 2012

Simon Bridge

Multiple-file, searchable, streaming compression library implemented natively in .NET.

Windows.NETDevIntermediateC#4.0WinFormbinarystreamingserialization

Zip and Unzip in the MFC way

12 Oct 2011

Tadeusz Dracz

A library to create, modify, and extract Zip archives.

C#3.0.NET3.5C#Windows.NETBeginnerC#4.0RecursiveC#3.5Threading

SimplePack Library

23 Nov 2010

Michal Stehlik

Simple way how to pack data into one file

How to use GZipStream to extract a text log and list the result in a grid

25 Feb 2010

kalyos

Using GZipStream to extract a text log and list the result in a grid.

C#.NETDevXAMLWPFIntermediate

Zip My Code

20 Dec 2009

disore

A utility stripping your source code to the essential core and then compressing it to a nice CodeProject article attachment.

C#3.0.NET3.5DevXAMLWPFLINQIntermediateMVVM

Arithmetic Compression With C#

10 Dec 2009

Agola Kisira Odero

This article describes arithmetic compression with an implemetnation in C#.

C#ArchitectDevAdvanced

ZipBuilder - A zip package creation utility for collections of large files

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.

C#2.0C#3.0.NET3.5DevIntermediateAdvanced

.NET wrapper for Info-ZIP

25 May 2009

Serhiy Perevoznyk

A C# wrapper for the Info-ZIP library.

C#2.0C#3.0.NETWin32DevIntermediate

Craft Your Own Archiver 3 / 3

13 Dec 2008

Leung Yat Chun

This article explain how to use cake3's threading support.

.NET2.0C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0C#.NETDevDesignBeginnerWinForm

Craft Your Own Archiver 2 / 3

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.

.NET2.0C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0C#.NETDevDesignBeginnerWinForm

Craft Your Own Archiver 1 / 3

5 Dec 2008

Leung Yat Chun

This article describe how to perform list, extract, add and operations to archives using CAKE3.

.NET2.0C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5C#.NETDevDesignBeginner

Opening Jars with Visual Basic

8 Jul 2008

salysle

This article shall describe an approach that may be used to extract Jar files.

VS2008VBVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Opening Jars with C#

8 Jul 2008

salysle

This article shall describe an approach that may be used to extract Jar files.

VS2008C#Visual-StudioDevIntermediateWinForm

GZipStream - Compress/Decompress a string

23 Jun 2008

Frankidoze

An article on how use GZipStream with string as input parameter.

.NET2.0C#2.0.NET3.5C#.NETDevIntermediate

Simple zip archive unzipper

14 May 2008

Anders M. Mikkelsen

A very small library for unzipping zip files/streams.

.NET2.0C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5C#.NETDevIntermediate

Huffman compression class in C++

9 Apr 2008

Chesnokov Yuriy

The article provides a dynamic Huffman compression and decompression class and a console application written in C++.

VS2008C++WindowsWin32Visual-StudioDevIntermediateVC9.0

Compress Folders with C# and the SharpZipLib

24 Jan 2008

salysle

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.

VS2005C#Visual-StudioDevIntermediate

An MFC class to unpack Rar files, with multithread and GUI support

25 Jul 2006

Kangaroo

An MFC class to unpack Ear files, with multithread and GUI support.

VC6VC7.1VS.NET2003MFCDevIntermediate

DecompressLibrary - a general library to decompress a zip, gz, or tar.gz file into a memory buffer

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).

.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediateWin7VB.NET

Files and Folders - Configuration Files

Saving and loading all control values to user settings

19 Feb 2014

Alexandros Pappas

This article provides a program to demonstrate how to save and load all control values to user settings.

Extraction of configuration from custom configuration file

14 May 2013

Serdar Kurbanov

Library for extracting configuration settings from custom configuration file is provided.

C#DevIntermediatefileCSVCsharp.net

Reading and Writing CSV Files in C#

4 Jul 2012

Jonathan Wood

Here's some lightweight C# code for reading and writing CSV files.

Simplified INI Handling

24 Jan 2012

formlesstree4

An easy to use managed class to handle INI files.

.NETDevBeginnerC#4.0

Simple and flexible way to access and store configuration settings

6 Jan 2012

Aleksey Shurtygin

An easy way to manage application configuration with a wide range of options for storage.

C#ASP.NETWindowsArchitectDevADO.NETBeginnerIntermediateGeneralprogramming

.NET settings files in class library projects

26 Aug 2011

Jecho Jekov

How to use .NET settings files in class library projects.

.NET2.0.NET3.0.NET3.5C#DevIntermediate

IniWorker

22 Feb 2011

csrss

Yet another but a little bit different INI files parser.

CWindowsDevIntermediate

Saving Connection Strings to app.config

1 Feb 2011

aodennison

Contrary to several articles, connection strings may be saved to app.config with just a few lines of code.

C#XMLWindowsDevIntermediate

Shared Application Settings in machine.config

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.

XML.NETDevBeginnerVB.NET

INI Reader / Writer Class for C#, VB.NET, and VBScript

15 Nov 2010

Ludvik Jerabek

Read and write to INI files in VB.NET and VBScript

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0MonoDotGNU.NET3.0VB7.xVB8.0VB9.0.NET3.5

Enhanced Configuration File Handling II

12 Sep 2009

Avi Farah

Configuration files can be enhanced and extended using config-variables and if-logic

.NET3.5C#.NETDevBeginner

Enhanced Configuration File Handling

27 Mar 2009

Avi Farah

Configuration files can be enhanced and extended using config-variables.

.NET3.5C#XML.NETDevBeginner

XML based registry implementation for configuration settings

22 Jan 2009

Bjoern Hillebrand

A component that stores application content to an XML file.

Custom Configuration Sections for Lazy Coders

13 Jan 2009

John Whitmire

Using custom configuration sections without having to understand them... much.

.NET2.0C#2.0C#3.0C#XML.NETDevBeginnerIntermediate

Lifecycle Profile Settings

6 Jan 2009

Nic_Roche

A simple mechanism for partitioning settings for development, acceptance, and production.

.NET3.5C#VBWindows.NETVisual-StudioArchitectDevADO.NETBeginner

An INI file enumerator class using C#

8 Dec 2008

Hilly_Billy

An INI file enumerator class using C#.

C#2.0C#3.0C#.NETDevBeginner

Setup and App config editor

10 Nov 2008

Slava Khristich

Edit config file at app setup and after. Describes recursive node parsing and populating a tree view control.

.NET1.1.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS.NET2003VS2005TabletPCC#2.0

API-Less INI File Wrapper

5 Nov 2008

Tolgahan ALBAYRAK

Read, Write, Save INI files without using Windows APIs.

.NET2.0VS2005C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5VS2008C#.NETVisual-Studio

Simple XML Config File Reader/Writer

22 Aug 2008

RohitOn.Net

A very simple to use configuration reader/writer for .NET.

C#3.0.NET3.5C#XML.NETDevLINQIntermediate

XMLProfile - a non-MFC, non-STL class to read and write XML profile files

2 Jul 2008

Hans Dietrich

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

VS2005C++WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

A C++ Config File Parser

16 May 2008

freejack

An STL based C++ utility class to parse structured config files.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0C++C++/CLICSTLIntermediate

Generic Reading of Configuration Sections

5 Mar 2008

Guy Baseke

Generic reading of configuration sections.

C#2.0C#3.0XML.NETDevBeginner

Class Library to Automatically Maintain Persistent Variables, Properties and Data Between Sessions

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

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaC#Windows.NETIntermediate

A flexible way to store application/user settings

16 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!

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPVS2005C#2.0DevIntermediate

Source Code Line Counter

13 Mar 2007

DXNuk

Complete source code line counter for .cs and .vb files (not an addon)

XML Application Profile Class

27 Jan 2007

John Simmons / outlaw programmer

Implement XML application profiles that are similar (but not too similar) to using INI files

VC8.0WinXPVS2005MFCDevIntermediate

A .NET Class for Creating/Reading/Editing INI Files

15 Jan 2007

felixLindemann

Handling INI files in VB.NET.

.NET1.0.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

INI Class for .NET

9 Aug 2005

aejw

Class for interfacing with INI files.

The very last Configuration Section Handler I hope I'll ever need

27 Jun 2004

Phil Haack

Flexible and easy to use configuration section handler with change monitoring

.NET1.0C#WindowsDevIntermediate

Ini Handler

2 Jun 2004

kratchkov

Permits simple access to ini files

Handle multiple configuration files

7 Dec 2003

Paperless

Read and write any configuration file with ease

.NET1.0.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

A custom configuration file AppSettings reader class

21 Oct 2003

Daniel Fisher (lennybacon)

This article describes how to create a custom configuration file AppSettings reader class.

C#2.0C#3.0Windows.NETDevBeginnerWinForm

Files & Folders - Encryption

File Encryption and Decryption in C#

14 May 2008

Steve Lydford

Demonstrates how to encrypt and decrypt any file type using C#.

Base .NET Cryptography Services with Visual Basic 2008

13 Mar 2008

Alessandro Del Sole

Learn how to be the only one accessing your files, with two simple .NET methods.

.NET2.0VS2005VB8.0VB9.0.NET3.5VS2008DevBeginner

A Little Encryption Utility that will turn all your keys from the keyboard in to a binary file

9 Dec 2004

gamitech

This program will take all lettlers from a given file and turn them into a binary code defined by me. Attention, it only encrypts keys that are on you keyboard and it is not case sensitive.

VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPMFCATLDevIntermediate

File Encryption Utility

22 Sep 2002

Nir Dremer

File Encryption Utility based on Blowfish Encryption Algorithm.

Serializing encrypted data

31 Oct 2001

Gilad Novik

How to serialize encrypted data using CArchive

File Stream Encryption (using a Context Menu)

13 Aug 2000

Dan Madden

An article on file stream encryption (using Crypto++ v3.2) from an Explorer Context Menu.

Encrypting Log Files

16 Jul 2000

Dan Madden

Demonstrates using encryption to protect sensitive application log file data.

C#.NETVS2010PDFDLLfontDevelopment

Files & Folders - File Formats

PDF File Writer C# Class Library (Version 1.8)

15 Sep 2014U

Uzi Granot

PDF File Writer is a C# .NET class library allowing applications to create PDF files. Version 1.8 adds Bookmarks.

Using Unicode in INI files

3 Apr 2014

Manabu Kumeta

How to use Unicode in INI files.

VC7.1Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

PDF File Analyzer With C# Parsing Classes (Version 1.2)

15 Mar 2014

Uzi Granot

PDF File Analyzer is designed to read, parse, and display the internal structure of PDF files. Version 1.2 Process Cross Reference Streams

C#WindowsDevIntermediatePDF

Rendering PDF Documents with Mupdf and P/Invoke in C#

23 Dec 2013

wmjordan

Converting PDF into bitmaps without installing extra components.

C#.NETDevIntermediatePDFP/Invoke

Unification of Text and Binary File APIs

26 Nov 2013

Shao Voon Wong

A portable and easy-to-use C++ file library to read and write structured data

VC8.0C++CWindowsDevLinuxIntermediateVC9.0VC10.0

Named Binary Tag serialization

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.

C#binaryserializationMineCraftNBT

XDD-Tools for developer

24 Jun 2012

yuan yong fu

XDD-Tools for developer , count source code line,copy project file, remove comment in source code.

C#Windows

A Number of Reusable PE File Format Scanning Functions

5 May 2010

Stefan Kuhr

Useful functions to retrieve information from PE files

C++WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevAdvanced

Convert PBS Legacy Files to XML

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.

.NET2.0C#.NETDevIntermediate

CSV Format Encoder and Decoder

10 May 2009

Liu Junfeng

Make use of the comma separated values file format.

.NET2.0C#2.0DevIntermediate

XPEInfo - a non-MFC class to get info from PE file

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.

WinXPVistaVS2005C++WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Automated PDF Conversion using the PDF995 and FreePDF_XP Freeware Printers

16 Oct 2008

keenthinker

An object oriented class automating the creation of PDF files from any file using freeware tools.

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003Vista.NET3.0VB7.xVB8.0

Converting Image Files to PDF

15 Aug 2008

blackjack2150

An article on converting image files (BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF) to PDF

.NET2.0C#2.0C#Windows.NETDevIntermediate

PDF to Text

9 Oct 2007

RG_SA

Convert a PDF to text.

VS.NET2003VB7.xWindows.NETDevIntermediate

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

19 Jul 2007

Hans Dietrich

VC6VC8.0WinXPVistaVS2005MFCDevIntermediate

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 3 - Encrypted Files

9 Jul 2007

Hans Dietrich

VC6VC8.0WinXPVistaVS2005MFCDevIntermediate

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 1 - Text and Binary

6 Jul 2007

Hans Dietrich

VC6VC8.0WinXPVistaVS2005MFCDevIntermediate

Reading or writing a line from/to an ANSI/Unicode encoded text file in Unicode/MBCS applications

18 Jan 2006

cokkiy

An article on how to read/write a line from/to a text file encoded by ANSI/Unicode type.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003Visual-StudioMFCDev

CUnrarDLL 1.0 - An MFC UnRAR class

9 Aug 2005

.rich.w

An easy to use class based around unrar.dll.

Easy text document conversion - ANSI/Unicode and Unicode/ANSI

31 Oct 2004

darkoman

An article on direct ANSI to Unicode text document conversion from the source code.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0WindowsMFCDevIntermediate

CIniFile Class for C++ - A robust cross platform INI file class

21 Sep 2004

Todd Davis

A fully featured and cross platform friendly way to handle *.ini and *.cfg files.

Convert Tiff To Pdf

17 Feb 2003

sirrube

Tiff To PDF conversion Source Code.

Adobe Photoshop file loader template class

29 Jan 2002

Brad P. Taylor

A template class to making loading Adobe Photoshop files easier

Writing AutoCad DXF files

24 Jan 2000

Claude Gagnon

A simple class for writing AutoCad DXF files

MFCDevIntermediate

WinXPWin2003VistaWindowsArchitectDevBeginnerIntermediateAdvancedWin2008

Files and Folders - File System

FileDestroyer: Annihilate Files (overwrite multiple times, then delete) With This Utility

22 May 2014

newton.saber

The complete deletion of files leads us to understand the file system and OS even more deeply.

A Cross-platform Parser of the Dynamic Disks Structure

17 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.

C++WindowsArchitectDevLinuxIntermediateAdvanced

ExpTreeLib Version 3 - Explorer-like Navigation and Operation for your Forms

9 Jan 2014

Jim Parsells

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.

WinXPVistaVS2008Win32Win64DevIntermediateWin7VB.NET

The e File System

5 Sep 2013

RogerGDoss

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.

Directory Mirror using the FileSystemWatcher class

31 Mar 2013

Luc Archambault

An application that monitors a directory and maintains a copy of it.

C#Windows.NETDevIntermediate

Writing big quantities of files to HDD on Windows

17 Jan 2013

kosmoh

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.

C#WindowsArchitectDevDesignIntermediatedisk

FAT-32 Sorter

29 May 2012

Olekandr M

Update to "FAT-32 Sorter" helping to ignore leading 'the ' when sorting

C++WindowsATLSTLDevIntermediateFATFAT32

Handle Long Paths in .NET

15 Sep 2011

Nathan Stiles

A class written to easily handle long paths (32K in length) using .NET.

C#WindowsDevIntermediateWinForm

Iterative Implementation of Recursively Enumerating Files and Sub Folders

30 Dec 2010

yonken

Yet another implementation to enumerate files

C++WindowsSTLDevBeginnerAlgorithms

FileSystemWatcher - Pure Chaos (Part 2 of 2)

17 Dec 2010

John Simmons / outlaw programmer

Use the demo application (from Part 1) to observe events posted when creating files in the watched folder

C#.NETDevIntermediateAdvanced

FileSystemWatcher - Pure Chaos (Part 1 of 2)

17 Dec 2010

John Simmons / outlaw programmer

How to get all the events you want - whether you need them or not.

C#.NETDevIntermediateAdvanced

FAT-32 Sorter

21 Jul 2010

Udi Cohen

1 alternative

Utility that sorts the files' table in the FAT32 file system.

C++WindowsATLSTLDevIntermediateFATFAT32

An NTFS Parser Lib

30 May 2010

cyb70289

A C++ library to help in parsing an NTFS volume, file record and attributes.

C++WindowsDesignAdvanced

Custom file extension control

21 Apr 2010

Kasic Slobodan

Easily assign your extension to your application and set an icon.

.NET2.0C#2.0DevIntermediate

Improve responsiveness in Windows with the FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING wrapper

9 Mar 2010

rlasse

Avoid swapping out valuable file system cache of other applications when accessing large files that you know are not accessed again later.

C++DevIntermediate

Managing Sparse Files on Windows

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.

C++WindowsDevIntermediateSysAdmin

DiskManger - GetFolderSize and CleanupFolder

10 Dec 2009

PenangDev

A class to check disk information like total size, free space, used space, and clean up.

C++DevIntermediate

A Faster Directory Enumerator

27 Aug 2009

wilsone8

Describes how to create a significantly faster enumerator for the attributes of all the files in a directory.

.NET3.0C#3.0DevIntermediate

Real Time Folder Synchronization Window Service

23 Apr 2009

Shaoying Wei

A window service that can copy and delete files across domains to keep 2 folders synchronized

.NET2.0VS2005C#.NETWin32Visual-StudioDevBeginner

Folder Coder

11 Dec 2007

Buffalloy

A way to convert a folder into a file...

VB7.xVB8.0VB9.0Windows.NETDevIntermediate

BlockingFileObserver - an IEnumerable<string> implementation

13 Oct 2007

anjelinio

BlockingFileObserver - an IEnumerable implementation

.NET2.0C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Deleting 0 length files

21 Jun 2007

Mor DeRor

Code for deleting 0 length files.

.NET2.0VBWindowsVisual-StudioDevBeginner

How to quickly improve and optimze the backup of your company

1 Jun 2007

FrankNight

This project shows a technique to archive old files and to optimize the backup of your company.

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0VS.NET2003VS2005.NET3.0VB7.xVB8.0VB9.0Windows

Mass Renamer

25 May 2007

DumpsterJuice

A quick example of how to batch-

.NET1.1.NET2.0C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

How to implement a simple filewatcher Windows service in C#

23 Apr 2007

Matt Sciotto

This article explains the basic techniques and VS.NET project structure for creating and implementing a simple C# FileSystemWatcher Windows Service

VS2005C#2.0Windows.NETDevIntermediate

Generic Directory Watcher Service

8 Feb 2007

Luke Stratman

This service watches for filesystem events in directories and runs specified programs in response to those events.

xDirectory.Copy() - Copy Folder, SubFolders, and Files

19 Oct 2006

John Storer II

The .NET framework doesn't have a Directory.Copy() method. So I developed one myself.

.NET1.1.NET2.0Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003VS2005VBDevIntermediateWinForm

Advanced FileSystemWatcher

21 Sep 2006

George Oakes

This is an advanced manipulation of the FileSystemWatcher object.

Manipulating NTFS Junction Points in .NET

19 Sep 2006

jeff.brown

How to create and manipulate NTFS Junction Points (aka. symbolic links) in .NET

C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevAdvanced

IStorageFolder - Encapsulation for file-system folders and files

27 Feb 2006

Jason.Thomas

An interface that encapsulates file-system folders and files that includes implementations for the file system and memory.

.NET2.0VS2005C#WindowsDevIntermediate

WinSearchFile: how to search files on your PC

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.

.NET2.0VS2005C#WindowsDevIntermediate

File System Enumerator using lazy matching

23 Feb 2006

Carl Daniel

An efficient solution for finding files.

C++ Wrapper and Extension of Windows FileSystemObject Objects

21 Feb 2006

Skeeter

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.

Quick and dirty directory copy

17 Jan 2006

Tareq_Gamal

Quick directory copy to another directory.

.NET1.1Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

Cool File System Class with Thread Support - Easy To Use

3 Oct 2005

Vahe Karamian

An easy to use file system class supporting threads.

XMLFileWatcher

7 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.

.NET1.1VS.NET2003C#XMLWindowsDevADO.NETIntermediate

WinTouch - Change access date, creation date and modified date for files and directories

11 Jul 2005

SathishVJ

Touches a file with specified date/time so that its access, creation or modified date is changed.

.NET1.1Win2KVS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

.NET Directory Copy Program

23 Jun 2005

Aryasheel

The article fills in the gap for the .NET framework to copy directory contents.

Processing files within a file structure with plug-ins and events

5 Mar 2005

Alexandru Ghiondea

Presents an application used to process files within a file structure using event handling and plug-ins.

.NET1.0.NET1.1WinXPVS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

Create Icons for Folders in Windows Explorer, Using C#

17 Jan 2005

InteractiveLogic

This article describes how to assign an icon to a folder in Windows Explorer, using C#.

FolderSync class for .NET

26 Jun 2004

kratchkov

A set of classes which can get differences between two folders and which can synchronize them according to basic rules

.NET1.0Win2KWinXPC#DevIntermediate

Advanced File Explorer

20 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.

.NET1.0Win2KWinXPWin2003C++C#MFCDevIntermediate

Scan the Directory / Files (Calculating the size)

17 Apr 2004

Srinivas Varukala

Scans through the directory recursively and calculates the total size.

File/Folder Watcher Wrapper

22 Mar 2004

Brad Vincent

Easy implmentation of folder watcher class, by wrapping the logic and events.

.NET1.1C#WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Monitor all file system activity on a target server

8 Dec 2003

dzzxyz

This file system watcher allows you to monitor all file system activity on a target server.

.NET1.0.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003C#DevAdvanced

XML Directory Tree Generator

17 Sep 2003

Erhan Hosca

Describes a directory tree documenter that outputs XML.

.NET1.0.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

Class Library for recursing through directories

12 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.

.NET1.0.NET1.1C#WindowsDevIntermediate

Function to copy a directory to another place (nothing fancy)

19 Nov 2002

GriffonRL

Simple C#/.NET tip to copy an entire directory tree to another directory

.NET1.0C#WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

.NET2.0C#2.0C#WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Files

A Complete Win32 INI File Utility Class

28 May 2014

wilsone8

A complete wrapper for the Win32 INI APIs

CSV Serializer for .NET

10 May 2013

CognitiveFeedback

General solution to Serializing and Deserializing CSV files.

C#.NETIntermediateCSVserialization

Resources Files (.resx vs .resources)

3 May 2013

charan anasam

Introduction to the Resources .resx and Resources files

XML

Cabinet File (*.CAB) Compression and Extraction

23 Mar 2012

Elmue

How to implement creation and extraction of Microsoft CAB files

VS2005C++C++/CLIC#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

A Lightweight Indexed File for Storing Persistent Data and Objects

30 Dec 2011

Richard Chambers

A small function library for managing a file containing data records that have unique keys or indexes.

C++WindowsDevIntermediateApplication

Async Drag 'n Drop or Drag 'n Drop from external server/device

19 Nov 2011

User008

Drag 'n Drop asynchronous files from an external server or device

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaC#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5C#

File Server Viewer

9 Nov 2011

B@dC0d3r

Views records from File Server Audit program

WindowsIntermediateVB.NET

File Attribute Changer

25 Jul 2011

Praveen Kullu

An Attribute changer which can change attributes of files and folders

C#2.0C#WindowsIntermediate

Delete Undeletable Folders under Vista or Windows 7

28 Jun 2011

Pascal Ganaye

A small utility that will help you get rid of the hard to remove protected or system folders

VistaC#WindowsDevIntermediateWin7

DataImporter, A Component to Easily Read Data from Files

31 Oct 2010

TG_Cid

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

C#2.0C#3.0C#WindowsIntermediateC#4.0WinForm

Detect Encoding from ByteOrderMarks (BOM)

15 Aug 2010

Mr.PoorEnglish

Avoid foot-traps while using StreamReader / StreamWriter

.NET1.1.NET2.0C#.NETDevBeginnerconvertstreamencodingfile

FileVersion - Retrieve file version information

17 May 2010

Martin Brandl

Easily determine the version of a specified file or the version of the current process.

VC8.0WindowsDevIntermediate

LPTextFileDiff: another textfile compare utility.

31 Aug 2009

Luc Pattyn

My entry to the lean-and-mean programming competition.

.NET2.0C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5C#.NETIntermediateC#4.0.NET4

An LCS based diff-ing library in C#

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

C#3.0.NET3.5C#.NETArchitectDevQADesignBeginnerC#4.0

FileDiff2 Optimized

13 Aug 2009

Matthew Hazlett

A file diff utility.

.NET2.0C#2.0C#3.0VS2008DevBeginner

Validate a text file based on LINQ

7 Aug 2009

Allen _ Wang

This article will introduce how to validate a text file based on LINQ.

.NET3.5C#DevLINQBeginnerIntermediate

How to get the correct file time in C# in .NET Framework 2.0

9 Jan 2009

pablodg

Workaround to get the correct LocalDateTime of files no matter which date settings your computer has.

.NET1.1.NET2.0VS2005C#2.0C#3.0VS2008C#.NETVisual-StudioDev

Change File Date Attributes

27 Nov 2008

Etienne Rached

Change created, modified and accessed time

C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevBeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

CSV to Table to CSV

13 Sep 2008

Mycroft Holmes

Utility class to import and export CSV files.

C#2.0C#3.0C#

Automatically process incoming files

27 Oct 2007

Eric de Maar

Automatically process incoming files by using the DirectoryInfo class instead of FileSystemWatcher.

VS2005C#Windows.NETDevIntermediate

File Handling and Serialization in VB.NET

24 Sep 2007

AshokPatra

This article explores the foundations of file handling and serialization in VB.NET

VBWindows.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Monitor Multiple Files using FileSystemWatcher

7 Aug 2007

Raymund Macaalay

How to monitor multiple files using FileSystemWatcher.

.NET2.0VS.NET2003C#2.0WindowsDevIntermediate

Listing and Working with Files in Archives

22 Jun 2007

Leung Yat Chun

This article describes how to use CAKE3, which is a wrapper component for many archiver DLLs,

.NET2.0VS2005C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0WindowsDevBeginnerWinForm

#zlib - Modifying Archives

14 May 2007

TyronM

A way to modify Zip archives without extracting them completely.

Win2KWinXPC#.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Reading MTF Backup Files

4 Apr 2007

Ozgur Ozcitak

An article explaning how to read backup files created with the Microsoft Tape Format (MTF) specification.

.NET2.0C#2.0WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Using FileMapping on .NET as IPC

21 Jan 2007

aalday

Sample code for using FileMapping on .NET.

A recursive method for copying files to different volumes

14 Nov 2006

rmortega77

This article describes a recursive method for copying files to different volumes.

.NET2.0VS2005VBWindowsDevIntermediate

INIFile Class

29 Jun 2006

Jack Schitt

A class to manipulate INI files, for .NET 2.0.

Divide Files in Groups by Certain Order

1 May 2006

Denny50

This application divides files into groups

C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevBeginner

Reading ID3 tags from a WMA file (MP3 as well)

6 Mar 2006

danhi

A pair of classes to read the ID3 tags from either a WMA or MP3 file.

.NET1.1.NET2.0VS.NET2003VS2005C++VBWindowsDevIntermediate

Utility to backup your folders fast

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.

Intelligent Binary File Reader

24 Jul 2005

Jitesh Patil

Reads binary records. If the record structure changes, you don't need to change the source code.

Fast Binary File Reading with C#

28 Jun 2005

Anthony Baraff

Exploring the fastest way to read structures from a binary file in C#.

.NET1.0.NET1.1VS.NET2003VBWindowsDevIntermediate

Convert any URL to a MHTML archive using native .NET code

3 Apr 2005

wumpus1

A native .NET class for saving URLs: text-only, HTML page, HTML archive, or HTML complete.

Using Windows Services to monitor folders and unzip files - VB.NET

25 Mar 2005

Pablo Robert

How to use VB.NET to build a Windows Service that monitor folders looking for files in ZIP format (and unzip them).

.NET1.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VBDevIntermediate

Wrapper Class for Parsing Fixed-Width or Delimited Text Files

15 Feb 2005

Tony Selke

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.

.NET2.0VS.NET2003VS2005C#WindowsArchitectDevIntermediate

Working with Archived files

31 Oct 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.

Retrieve detailed information of a File

14 Aug 2004

cuepack

The article shows how to get the detailed information of a file like comments, author...

.NET1.0.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

Utilize the full functionality of Whidbey File Management from VB.NET

11 May 2004

Binoy R

Article on Whidbey File Management

VBWindows.NETVisual-StudioDevBeginner

IniFile Class using VB.NET

21 Jan 2004

Todd Davis

A .NET control to assist in the creation and manipualtion of *.ini files

VB.NET Solution for working with random files : Create, List, Update, and Delete

13 Jan 2004

Yiltan Bitirim

How to prepare an application for working with random files using VB.NET

File Processor

8 Jan 2004

RichardRoe

An article on processing a File using the FileSystemWatcher class

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPC#.NETVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

File Information using C#

3 Feb 2003

Samar Aarkotti

Getting information of Files and Directories

File Split & Merge Tool

9 Aug 2002

Sreenivas Vemulapalli

This tool is used to split large files into smaller chunks and merge them back into a single file.

.NET1.0VBWindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

.NET2.0C#2.0WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Files & Folders - General

Folder protection for Windows using C# and concepts on Windows Shell menu for folders

11 May 2012

Abhishek Sur

Unique folder protection that issues Windows Class IDS to protect folders.

Cross-platform INI Configuration Files (Win32/Un*x, MBCS/Unicode)

27 Feb 2012

brofield

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

C++WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevBeginner

Synchronicity - A Folder Synchronizing Application

7 Feb 2011

John Simmons / outlaw programmer

Windows service for synchronizing folders

C#WCFIntermediateWindows-service

View PDF files in C# using the Xpdf and muPDF library, Print PostScript.

26 Nov 2010

Antonio Sandoval

Wrapper C# class written in C++\CLI and a sample implementation in C# to render PDF files.

VC8.0C#2.0WindowsWin32ATLGDI+DevCOMIntermediateAdvanced

Rewrite DirectoryInfo using IShellFolder

25 May 2010

Leung Yat Chun

This article describes how to uses IShellFolder to list special / virtual directories using C#.

.NET2.0.NET3.0.NET3.5C#WindowsWin32DevWPFBeginner.NET4

The Way to Calculate a Collection of Folders Size

25 Feb 2010

365days.enjoy

The way to calculate a collection of folders size with VC++

C++VC9.0

Selecting a Subfolder from a Particular Folder

23 Feb 2010

Ahamad Alisha

Restricting the user to browse and select from a particular folder

VC6VC7VC7.1Win2KWinXPWin2003C++WindowsMFCDev

Show thumbnails of XPS documents

26 Jan 2010

Pravesh Soni

How to show thumbnails of XPS documents.

WinXPVistaC++Win32DevBeginnerWin7

Programmatically resize Desktop icons to a small list in Windows Vista and Windows 7

20 Jan 2010

Rei Resurreccion

Experience small and compact desktop icons view in Vista and Windows 7.

Read M4A tags in C#

3 Jan 2010

jesseseger

How to read M4A file information such as author and song title.

C#.NETDevCOMIntermediate

Extending DirectoryInfoEx to support Archives

31 Dec 2009

Leung Yat Chun

Allow users to make virtual directories and use them via a similar interface as DirectoryInfo.

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003Vista.NET3.0.NET3.5C#Win32Dev

PSFileDiff - A Response to the File diff CodeProject Contest

26 Aug 2009

Pete Souza IV

This project is a response to the file diff. CodeProject contest due August 31st, 2009

.NET2.0C#2.0C#.NETDevIntermediate

A UTF-16 Class for Reading and Writing Unicode Files

15 Jul 2009

Jeffrey Walton, Jordan Walters

A UTF-16 class derived from CStdioFile for reading and writing Unicode files

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS.NET2003VS2005

Timestamp - A utility to change a files "Modified" time.

15 Jul 2009

Chris Maunder

A simple utility to change a file - or multiple files - "Modified" time.

VC6WindowsWin32MFCDevIntermediate

How to copy files in C# with a customizable progress indicator and or progress bar

22 May 2009

Neil Cadman

This article shows you how to construct a class to copy files and folder trees with an optional progress indicator.

C#3.0.NETDevIntermediate

Organize Folder by Mover

3 Apr 2009

ibramoha

The program divides the folders into a wanted folder or path according to a number that the user will enter.

C#WindowsDevBeginner

JesTracePaster - Tool to Add Method-entry Logs in Source Files

11 Mar 2009

Jellow TK

This simple tool will add method-entry logs in source files.

JesInclAnalyzer

11 Mar 2009

Jellow TK

Include Analyzer (Unwanted header file inclusion removal)

VC6WindowsWin32MFCDevIntermediate

Simple way to decompress Gzip files

3 Mar 2009

thardy33

Decompressing Gzip files.

C#.NETDevBeginner

Drag and Drop to Windows Folder - C#

11 Feb 2009

Febin Joy

Drag and drop a file to a Windows folder from your application without using Shell Extensions.

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS2005C#2.0C#3.0DevIntermediate

Extracting Icons from EXE/DLL and Icon Manipulation

17 Jan 2009

Abdallah Gomah

How to extract icons from EXE/DLL, split/merge icons, and get icons associated with files.

C#2.0C#WindowsWin32DevIntermediateWinForm

CEnum - File Enumeration and File Globbing Class

6 Dec 2008

Loreia

CEnum is used for enumeration of files and directories using wildcard matching (globbing)

C++WindowsSTLDevIntermediate

Enhanced version of VB.NET GetFiles

21 Nov 2008

LeeBear

This is an inline enumeration of files instead of building an array first.

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS2005TabletPC.NET3.0VB7.xVB8.0

An intermediate way to generate Indic PDFs using iText/iTextsharp

12 Aug 2008

Dileep.M

All about generating PDF files for Indic scripts using iText/iTextSharp.

C#2.0C#3.0.NETDevIntermediate

Copy Files from Source to Target location based on the file creation date

21 Jul 2008

Jans Mary Suncy

Copying files from source locaion to target location based on the file creation date

VB6VB

Watching Folder Activity in C# .NET

2 Jul 2008

MrMahjong

How to monitor a folder's activity with delegates and events threadsafe

.NET2.0VS2005C#2.0.NET3.0VS2008C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDev

How to Rename Multiple Files with VBS

24 Jun 2008

ozkar garcia

VBScript code which can rename multiple files in a folder by replacing certain patterns and extensions.

VBScriptWindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Folderbackground Customizer

29 May 2008

Abbas Ali Butt

Select image and folder, then against the click button set the image as background at that folder.

.NET2.0C#2.0C#3.0C#.NETDevBeginnerWinForm

Scan Hard Drive into TreeView

13 Apr 2008

VCSKicks

Scan a hard drive file structure and map it out in a TreeView control with C#.

C#.NETDevBeginner

CFileWatch

1 Apr 2008

qweqwe

This class helps you to monitor files. You are notified if a file is modified outside the program.

C#2.0C#3.0.NETDevIntermediate

A simple method to create a shortcut to an executable file

19 Feb 2008

Jude Deng

A simple method to create a shortcut to an executable file.

VC6WinXPWin32DevBeginner

.NET 2.0 Workaround for PathTooLongException

17 Dec 2007

Balaji Lakshmanan

Using the Unicode version of CreateFileW, we can overcome the PathTooLongException error on file operations.

.NET File Browser

27 Oct 2007

carlosmsr

A basic .NET file browser fully based on the framework

.NET2.0VS2005C#2.0C#Windows.NETDevBeginnerWinForm

Use a Batch file to check-in files and folders using Visual SourceSafe

14 Oct 2007

Babak Ansari

Simplicity is the core value of XP. Automate the check-in process in VSS to simplify the Build process.

WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediateSysAdmin

TCExplorer - Portable Software to Import, Export, Delete, Rename, View, Edit and Execute Files in TrueCrypt Containers

9 Oct 2007

Yap Chun Wei

A portable software to import, export, delete, rename, view, edit and execute files in TrueCrypt containers without requiring administrative privileges

VS.NET2003C++WindowsMFCDevBeginner

.001,.002, ... Part Files Combiner

4 Oct 2007

tahouri

This program simply generates a batch file that you can extract your .00x files

C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevBeginner

Copy Directory Recursively using WMI

22 Sep 2007

nitstheone

This article tells how to copy a directory recursively using WMI

Read any length of line from file and count the total number of lines in the file

13 Sep 2007

Chetan Raiyani

You can read any length of line from the source file. No restrictions.

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaMFCDevBeginner

File / Folder Selection Control

24 Jul 2007

Chase Davis

A file / folder selection control that hides the selection until needed.

.NET1.0WinXPC#DevBeginner

CStdioFile-derived class for multibyte and Unicode reading and writing

19 Jul 2007

David Pritchard

A class, derived from CStdioFile, which transparently reads and writes both Unicode and multibyte files. Version 1.5.

Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS2005C++MFCDevIntermediate

XFolderSize - A class to determine folder size

11 Jun 2007

Hans Dietrich

XFolderSize is a non-MFC class that collects folder size, folder count, and file count based on starting folder.

How To Copy/Delete/Browse Files

31 May 2007

mariocatch

Browse for a Source File, and either Copy it to a Destination location, or delete that file

WinXPVS2005C#2.0.NETDevIntermediate

Customizing Folders in C#

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#.

.NET1.1.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VS2005C#2.0DevIntermediate

CodePage File Converter

13 Apr 2007

emad_awad

Used to convert Text Files to a different code-page

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS2005C#2.0C#Windows.NET

FileRen - Batch File Renamer

27 Feb 2007

A. Bhandari a.k.a Amit Bhandari

Batch file renaming utility using threading

Win2KWinXPC#.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

This is basically focus files attributes with .net 2.0 IO base class library

26 Feb 2007

Ravenet

THis atricle so some useful infomation any type of files and basic file attributes also

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0VS.NET2003VS2005C#2.0ASP.NETWindows.NETCFMobile

Version reading component (as in Explorer's Version tab)

1 Jan 2007

Masoom Shaikh

Version APIs wrapped in a simple component.

C++WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevCOMIntermediate

Easy storing application properties in an INI file

27 Nov 2006

Dennis Kuppens

An article about CProperties, a helper class to easily store application properties in an INI file.

WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Access the Summary Information Property Set of a file using Visual C++

9 Nov 2006

Najam ul Hassan

How to access the Summary Information Property Set of a file, using Visual C++.

Browse for Multiple Files and Folders

3 Nov 2006

vaseef

An article on a Browse Dialog which helps you to select multilple files and folders.

WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

CDiskObject: Simplifying common disk operations

11 Oct 2006

Johan Rosengren

A class for common directory and file list operations.

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003Visual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

linux "tail -f" Command in C#.NET

31 Aug 2006

nitstheone

Prints last 10 lines of a file

C#WindowsVisual-StudioDevLinuxBeginner

Transactional File Management in .NET

25 Aug 2006

ikehat

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).

C++CWindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevBeginner

INI Manipulation using C

22 Aug 2006

TooBaya

Using C to read and write INI file

Setting up “Auto Complete” feature in DOS command window.

13 Jul 2006

dfasdfafasdfasdf

"Auto Complete" setting in a DOS prompt enable users to traverse folders using tab key

C++WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevBeginner

FileToBin

11 Jul 2006

Lampros Giampouras

Converts any file to an array of bits.

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003C++WindowsMFCDevIntermediate

Copy Files And Directories By Traversing

6 Jul 2006

maneshcs

Create directories and copy files by traverse function

Really Useful .NET Classes: Part 1 - System.IO.Path

27 Jun 2006

Jeff Modzel

First article in a series about useful classes in .NET.

Image Classification Using File Header Information

12 May 2006

Ali Rizvi

How to do image classification using file header information.

Directory Size

9 Apr 2006

Esben Sundgaard

An article on getting the size of all folders

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0WinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Find Word

6 Jan 2006

Roger65

Windows Find is a nice tool but sometimes you want a little more. This program/tool does just that.

Getting Icons of Remote Files

21 Nov 2005

KarstenK

An easy way to get the icons of remote files if only the extensions are known.

VC7.1WinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Unicode and ANSI file I/O, line by line

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.

VC7WinXPVS.NET2003MFCSTLDevIntermediate

Win32 File Name Iteration Boost Way

3 Nov 2005

mb2sync

A Port of ::FindFirstFile to Boost.Range and Boost.Foreach

VC7.1WinXPVS.NET2003.NETMFCDevIntermediate

CFileFindEx

22 Sep 2005

Thomas Serface

A CFileFind with include/exclude filters.

VC7.1Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003MFCDevIntermediate

Eyes on NTFS

9 Sep 2005

Jason Q Zhang

An introduction to NTFS's Change Journal and a simple tool to operate

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003C++/CLI.NETMFCDevIntermediate

CPath - juggling file names made easy

9 Sep 2005

peterchen

A wrapper class for path strings based on (and improving) the Shell Lightweight utility API.

SplitPath

7 Sep 2005

Achim Klein

Splitting a path into its components.

FolderBrowse

7 Sep 2005

Achim Klein

Browse to a folder.

SimpleConfig

7 Sep 2005

Achim Klein

Serialize and access your application's config values.

Enumerate files and folders with combined file extensions mask

7 Jul 2005

Automation Software Engineer (A.S.E)

Reusable class to enumerate files and folders with combined file extensions, example: *.cpp,*.h,*.dsw.

How to retrieve file information

27 Jun 2005

shaman74

A simple function to retrieve file information as file version, product info etc.

VC6CWindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Folder Utility: Create Path, Remove Folder, Remove All Files

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.

CTextFileDocument

24 May 2005

PEK

CTextFileDocument lets you write and read text files with different encodings (ASCII, UTF-8, Unicode 16 little/big endian are supported).

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003MFCDevIntermediate

Settings Storage - easy program settings handling

26 Apr 2005

Pascal Hurni

Handle your program settings easily with multiple storage schemes and for several frameworks.

VC6WindowsMFCATLWTLDevIntermediate

Directory.CreateDirectory() method bug fixed

19 Apr 2005

Sergey Okhotny

Fixing System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory() security bug.

VC6WinXPWin2003CMFCDevAdvanced

Translating logical offsets into physical offsets

11 Apr 2005

Omri Shaked

An article explaining how to convert logical offsets returned by FSCTL_GET_FILE_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS to physical offsets from the beginning of the disk.

CTextFile: A handy helper

30 Mar 2005

Johan Rosengren

A small helper class for reading, writing and appending to/from text files.

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003Visual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

FindWhen

14 Feb 2005

Roger65

An article on finding files created before a date.

VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003CXMLMFCSTLDev

XML Settings

5 Feb 2005

AntonGogolev

Using XML to store settings.

Folder utilities

31 Jan 2005

Dudi Avramov

Folder utilities such as creating, removing, copying folders and getting folder's space.

VC6Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Bypassing ftell/fseek's 2gb limitation

29 Jan 2005

IGx89

Instructions on how to implement _fseeki64 and _ftelli64.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003CVisual-StudioMFC

Undelete a file in NTFS

13 Jan 2005

Ramanan.T

A tool to undelete a file in NTFS and a short tutorial on NTFS

VC6Win2KWinXPMFCDevAdvanced

Deleting a directory along with sub-folders

16 Dec 2004

Feroz Zahid

Function that deletes whole of a directory structure.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003WinMobileVisual-StudioMFC

Quick and Dirty Series: C++ FileSize() function

15 Dec 2004

Christopher Diggins

Finding the size of the file in C++ in a portable manner is not trivial!

Changes file & folder dates

12 Dec 2004

Ramanan.T

This is a simple tool to change created, modified and accessed dates of any file/folder.

VC7.1Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCSTLDevIntermediate

Win32 file name iteration STL way

21 Nov 2004

bektek

This simple class shows how to iterate file names by using STL iterator interface.

File Splitting/Mending Classes

28 Oct 2004

Stuart Konen

An article providing classes to split and mend files.

The Great PDF - Revealed

20 Aug 2004

shiraztk

A project to create PDF files using text editor and digitally sign them.

VC6VC7WindowsMFCDevIntermediate

Search Bytes in specified directory

29 Jul 2004

ChauJohnthan

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

Simple class to read and write from an UTF-8 encoded file

8 Jul 2004

Sven Axelsson

A class derived from CStdioFile to read and write from an UTF-8 encoded file.

VC6Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Copy, Move and Delete files and directories without using SHFileOperation

30 Mar 2004

Fess

Class that allows file operations without using SHFileOperation

CFileVersionInfo - Getting the file version information

29 Mar 2004

Armen Hakobyan

Class for getting file version information

CXMLProfile - Easy XML Profiles for applications

26 Feb 2004

Emilio Guijarro

A MFC class to store an application's profile in an XML file.

CRotatingLog - A simple rotary text file class

25 Feb 2004

PJ Arends

a simple class that implements a rotary (circular) text file

Counting version1.1

27 Jan 2004

xiaogi

A software to count lines in our source code.

CDataFile - An easy class for reading numeric data in CSV or Text-Delimited format.

26 Jan 2004

Nitron

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.

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCSTLDevIntermediate

FindFile class for Windows projects

12 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

Spying a file system

22 Sep 2003

Vitali Halershtein

Article describes how to create a file system spy application

VC6VC7VC7.1Win2KWinXPWin2003MFCSTLDevIntermediate

How to Write a Simple Packer/Unpacker with a Self-Extractor (SFX)

21 Sep 2003

Elias Bachaalany

An example of writing a self-extracting archive using pack and unpack routines.

How to get a notification if change occurs in a specified directory

3 Aug 2003

jukov

This article discusses how to handle file system notification events.

VC6VC7Win2KMFCDevIntermediate

ScanR - Text file string search and replace engine

3 Jul 2003

Kamal Shankar

A set of classes that allows you to search for strings in text files and replace them.

XFileProperties - A modeless dialog to display file properties

13 Jun 2003

Hans Dietrich

XFileProperties demonstrates the use of CXFileProperties, a class that displays a modeless dialog similar to the Windows file properties dialog.

VC7Win2KWinXPMFCDevIntermediate

MS-Cabinet File WrapperClasses

31 May 2003

Stefan Voitel

Two classes using cabinet.dll to create or extract from MS-Cabinet Files

XHtmlLog - Convert text log files to HTML

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.

CleanZipAndGo

20 May 2003

Dominique Doucet

Utility to quickly archive any project to a Zip file.

XFile - Extending the Win32 File API for Server Applications

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.

XReverse - Reverse a text file using memory-mapped files

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.

LogXML - A XML Logging Class

11 May 2003

whizer

A simple XML style logging class for all purposes.

VC6Win2KWinXPWin2003MFCDevIntermediate

Simple Protocol logging class

30 Apr 2003

jazper

An article on Protocolling / Logging

Reading Data from MSI Database

29 Apr 2003

harinath

A console application to read data from a Windows Installer database

Store and Extract multiple compressed files in an archive & Extract from Resource

26 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

VC6VC7VC7.1Win2KWinXPVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Writing a self destructing exe file

26 Apr 2003

Michael Walz

Explains how you can have a program delete itself once it has finished running without a reboot

CFile Replacement with Overlapped I/O and User-Defined Progress Callback

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.

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPMFCSTLDevIntermediate

Drag, drop, cut, copy and paste operations on lists of files using MFC

5 Apr 2003

Brigsoft

Article that explains drag, drop, cut, copy and paste operations on lists of files using MFC

VC6WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

FPATH - Search files in Environment's Directories

14 Mar 2003

hector santos

An utility to search files in Environment's Directories

SADirRead - directory and file list class

2 Mar 2003

C^hris L^osinger

Scans a folder for sub-folders and files. Simple and easy to use.

VC6Win2KMFCSTLDevIntermediate

CFileManip: "DOS-Command-Like" File/Directory Manipulation

28 Feb 2003

Abin

A class that allows fast and easy file/directory operation

An ShGetFileInfo Wrapper Class

6 Feb 2003

Doru Cioata

A class built around the use of ShGetFileInfo() function.

CSplitMX - File Splitting Class for Visual C++

29 Oct 2002

Pyatex

This class splits a source file into many smaller pieces which can be distributed accross the web or on floppy disk.

TextFileSplitter - A Class to Split Text Files

16 Oct 2002

nums

A class for splitting a large text file into equal amounts of smaller sub_text files

Validating file names

9 Oct 2002

Joe Woodbury

Function to determine if a file name is valid.

VC6Win2KWinXPMFCDevBeginner

How to read and write an INI File

17 Sep 2002

Aisha Ikram

List sections and section data (key-value pairs). Displays a key value and creates/modifies a key-value pair

Creating Self-Extracted Executable

15 Sep 2002

Nir Dremer

How to create a Self-Extracted executable with minimal overhead

VC6VC7Win2KWinXPMFCSTLDevIntermediate

Recursive patterned File Globbing

27 Aug 2002

Joshua Jensen

Class and application to recursively or non-recursively match files or directories based on a wildcard pattern.

Creating a Self Extracting Executable

20 Aug 2002

James Spibey

A class that allows you to create self extracting executables for use in distribution or setup programs

Classes for Splitting and Joining files

16 Aug 2002

Bijesh

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.

CFileFinder - Extend the functionality of CFileFind MFC class

15 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.

CPath 1.2 - To work with path strings easily

15 Aug 2002

Samuel Gonzalo

A class to work with path strings, to parse command line arguments and get file properties

.NET1.0C#WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Working with the System.IO.Directory Class in C#

30 Jul 2002

Chandra Hundigam

A brief introduction to the .NET System.IO.Directory class

Obtaining (and managing) file and folder icons using SHGetFileInfo in C#

2 Jul 2002

Paul Ingles

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.

.NET1.0C#WindowsDevIntermediate

CFileVersionInfo - Retrieving a File's full Version Information Resource

18 Jun 2002

Sven Wiegand

A class that enables you to easily retrieve a file's version information.

VC6VC7WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

CxFile

15 May 2002

Davide Pizzolato

Disc and memory files within the same object

Fixed-Length Logging

13 May 2002

Jason Henderson

A simple class derived from CFile that will handle many of your logging needs.

CDirectoryChangeWatcher - ReadDirectoryChangesW all wrapped up

11 May 2002

Wes Jones

This class wraps up ReadDirectoryChangesW.

Multi-threaded file finder class

29 Mar 2002

sultan_of_6string

A class that searches a directory tree for files using a worker thread, keeping the main app. usable.

Delete folders, subfolders and files easily

20 Feb 2002

Jonathan Pouliot

This article shows you how to delete all the files and subfolders in a selected folder

VC6VC7WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

CFileTar 1.0 - pack and unpack file archives

18 Nov 2001

Nish Sivakumar

A class for packing and unpacking file archives.

A Handy Guide To Handling Handles

24 Oct 2001

Joseph M. Newcomer

The secrets of File Handles and their relationship to File *, CFile, CStdioFile, etc.

VC6Visual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

An email collection program

11 Aug 2001

Scott Wenger

This is a small program that can extract email addresses from files that are not necessarily text files.

WindowsMFCDevIntermediate

Structured Storage - The DocFile

14 Jul 2001

Andrew Peace

A wrapper class for easy use of OLE structured storage.

Recursively listing file type information and icon

21 Jun 2001

BLaZe

Code to recursively search folders to display file type information and icons

Self-Extracting File Framework

7 May 2001

Rui Lopes

An article about creating Self-Extracting files with integrated compression

File Segmenter

31 Mar 2001

Tili

This class creates from 1-9 segments of a single file which can be then desgmented.Useful for moving larger file on floppies.

Win2KC++Visual-StudioMFCDevIntermediate

Remembering the last folder used by Open/Save Common dialogs

8 Feb 2001

Mumtaz Zaheer

How applications determine the last visited folders for Open/Save Common Dialogs in Win2K.

Circular File

5 Feb 2001

Ibrar Ahmad

A class that implements a simple circular file.

CNGDiskSpaceMonitor - a Free Disk Space Monitoring class

5 Feb 2001

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

A class to monitor free disk space on a nominated drive

Importing multiple sets of string values from files

17 Jan 2001

Peter Pearson

An article on importing multiple sets of string values into a program from files (e.g. CSV files).

VC6Win2KVB6MFCDevIntermediate

FileMonitor

11 Dec 2000

Franky Braem

An ATL control for monitoring your directories and/or files for updates, creation and deletion

CFileChangeEvent Class

30 Nov 1999

Franky Braem

An article about how we can notify our application that a file has been changed by another application.

CFileInfoArray: A class for gathering file information recursively through directories

23 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

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0WindowsWin32DevIntermediate

Files & Folders - Memory Mapped Files

Simple File I/O Using Windows Memory Mapped Files (MMF)

12 Jun 2009

manju_soham

A generic C++ class for simple file I/O, just like CFile.

Memory Map Class : Policy Based Design

26 Feb 2005

Rohit Joshi

Memory Map class provides IPC using shared memory. The Policy based design provides flexibility, extensibility and easy to use class.

C++WindowsVisual-StudioMFCDevAdvanced

Extracting Email ID's from an address book using Memory mapped file

15 May 2002

Hirosh

A simple and fast method to extract Email ID's from an Address book

C++WindowsTargetmonitoringEyeShippinglist

Files and Folders - Security

Target Eye Revealed part 3 - The Shopping List Mechanism

12 Jun 2014

Michael N. Haephrati

How the Shopping List mechanism was used as part of the Target Eye project

Encrypt PDF

17 Oct 2009

Igor Krupitsky

This Windows application lets you password protect PDF files in a given folder.

.NET2.0VBDevIntermediate

PDF Security Remover

4 Dec 2008

Patricker

Remove security from PDF files.

.NET2.0.NET3.0VB8.0VB9.0.NET3.5VBASP.NET.NETBeginnerWinForm

Secure File Shredder

28 Oct 2008

John Underhill (Steppenwolfe)

A secure file shredder in C#

.NET2.0C#Visual-StudioDesign

Calculating MD5 Checksum

25 Feb 2008

zenox

A C# program showing how to use the System.Security.Cryptography.MD5 class.

C#2.0C#3.0C#Windows.NETDevIntermediate

Testing File Access Rights in .NET 2.0

13 Jul 2006

Bruce Hatt

A simple way to test individual access rights for a given file and user

C#ASP.NETWindows.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

E-signing PDF documents with iTextSharp

17 Jun 2006

Alaa-eddine KADDOURI

An example demonstrating how to sign PDF documents with the iTextSharp library.

WinXPC#ASP.NET.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Find and delete NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS )

19 Oct 2005

Marco Roello

A GUI extension of the NTFS library written by Richard Deeming.

Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003C#.NETDevIntermediate

CrcStream stream checksum calculator

8 Oct 2005

Rei Miyasaka

Make better use of time by calculating CRCs on-the-fly.

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0DotGNUC#Windows.NETCFVisual-StudioMobileDev

FileHasher

29 Sep 2005

belthurgp

FileHasher is a tool to hash files recursively across a selected folder.

.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediateWinForm

Get MD5 and SHA-1 (SHA1) of any file

11 Feb 2005

Dariush Tasdighi

Get file's hash (SHA-1, MD5) - This program needs .NET Framework 1.1.

Manipulate Alternate Data Streams

23 Jan 2005

Sean Michael Murphy

A library you can use to encode "hidden" data in existing files.

.NET1.1.NET2.0Win2KWinXPVS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

Windows.NETDevIntermediatePDFVB.NET

Files and Folders - Utilities

PDF Merge

13 Dec 2013

Igor Krupitsky

This Windows application lets you merge image and PDF files in a given folder into one PDF file.

Automatic Zip Extractor

10 Oct 2013

jabit

Automatically unblocks and extracts Zip files in a monitored folder.

C#.NETDevIntermediateSysAdmin

Private Folder Locker

26 Apr 2013

Pieter Alec Myburgh

Folder Encrypted / Decrypter with standolone function

.NET3.5C#DevIntermediateC#3.5EncryptionDecryption

BinDiff - A tool to compare binary files

13 Mar 2013

Manfred Bittersam

Compare binary files.

.NET2.0C#DevSysAdmin

Using Events: Filerenamer II Project

22 Nov 2012

chuck in st paul

This is a utility program for bulk/batch renaming of files that demonstrates using and creating events

C#Windows.NETDevBeginnerIntermediateTreesDataGridDictionaryevent

Fault tolerant file comparison

17 Oct 2012

Alexander Schwoch

This is an alternative for "Fault Tolerance for Large Files on Cranky Hardware"

C++DevLinuxIntermediateAdvancedSysAdminfileg++

File Searcher in C#

29 Sep 2012

Manfred Bittersam

A freeware file searcher in C#

VS2005WinMobile5VS2008C++WindowsWin32DevIntermediateWinMobile6

Fault Tolerance for Large Files on Cranky Hardware

13 Sep 2012

sbarnes

1 alternative

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.

DevAdvancedC#4.0Win7Win8

Find Duplicate Files and Delete Them

1 Sep 2012

@AmitGajjar

Application for seaching similar kinds of files in different folders.

DevWPFIntermediateC#4.0

Directory file listing utility

13 Jun 2012

Shup

An article about methods to recursively list all files in a given directory.

Live Log Viewer

23 Apr 2012

Alex Wiese

Monitors log files and displays text as it is appended to the file

WinXPWin2003VistaC#Windows.NETBeginnerWin2008C#4.0Win7

A Tiny Tool to Unhide Files on a USB Drive

30 Mar 2012

tadeze

A tiny tool to unhide files on a USB drive.

C#Windows.NETDevIntermediate

The Explorer Imperative - Partie Trois

20 Mar 2012

Jaxon7

Restoring UI Responsiveness FromContinuations (Asynch file IO)

WinXPWindows.NETCOMWPFBeginnerF#Win7RecursiveThreading

File Inventory and Statistics

5 Feb 2012

C Yang

Program to inventory directories and tally files.

C#WindowsDevBeginnerRecursiveThreadingSqlite

File Cleaner

15 Nov 2011

Indrajeet Valera

File Cleaner - Zip & delete old files

JavaWindowsArchitectDBADevQALinuxDesignSysAdminApplication

Sourcepack (indexing PDB files with source archive file)

25 Aug 2011

Sebastian Solnica

PDB files indexer (using file archive as a repository).

C#Windows.NETDevIntermediate

PDF First Page

4 Aug 2011

Igor Krupitsky

This Windows application lets you deleted all of your pages from your PDF files except for the first one.

VB.NETVB.NET

Flexible CSV reader/writer with progress reporting

3 Aug 2011

Eric Lynch

Flexible CSV reader/writer with progress reporting and many file format variations.

C#3.0.NET3.5VS2008WindowsDevADOADO.NETIntermediateWinForm

Parsing of Zipped plain text files and saving results to a local database with .NET 3.5

16 May 2011

dimas1971

Parsing Zipped plain text files and saving results to a local database with .NET 3.5, LINQ to SQL, BackgroundWorker, and UI.

C#3.0VS2008.NETSQL-ServerDevLINQBeginner

File Flitter

15 Jan 2011

Marc Clifton

Monitor files and when they change, copy them to specified folders.

C#.NETDevBeginnerMVVM

Dual Pane File Manager

21 Dec 2010

Jeff Gaines

A dual pane file manager for Windows XP.

WinXPC#.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

File Manager With Clipboard Interaction and Drag and Drop Support

14 Nov 2010

infinateone

A file manager app with Clipboard interaction and drag and drop support.

C#Windows.NETWin32DevIntermediateC#3.5User-controlsShellApplication

File Renamer Lite v1.2

20 Oct 2010

John Underhill (Steppenwolfe)

A simplified file renamer

C#Windows

Simple File Search Class

30 Jun 2010

jabit

A simple search class to search a directory and all sub-directories in the background for files with a defined search pattern.

Multithreaded File/Folder Finder

26 May 2010

Roger500

File Find is fast, especially if you have multiple physical drives; version 2.1.0.17.

WinXPVistaC#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0DevIntermediateSysAdmin.NET4

Open cmd.exe from Explorer

18 Apr 2010

kim.david.hauser

Open a cmd console from almost anywhere in Explorer via context menu

WinXPVistaWindowsAll-TopicsWin7

ZipTrack

2 Dec 2009

TL Wallace

A comprehensive way to manage all of your downloaded zip files.

.NET3.0VB9.0DevIntermediateWinForm

MSN Emoticons to GIF

2 Nov 2009

Etienne Rached

Backup or save or convert MSN Messenger custom emoticons to GIF files

C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevBeginner

Validating data with Flat File Checker

30 Oct 2009

byapparov

An article on data validation with a flat file schema generated in Flat File Checker.

VB8.0VB9.0XMLWindows.NETVisual-StudioDBADevIntermediateAdvanced

PIEBALDdiff

21 Sep 2009

PIEBALDconsult

A line-by-line file diff utility

.NET3.5C#.NETBeginner

VMSTAT Analyzer

1 Sep 2009

Biswas, Sumit

Helps UNIX / Linux administrators to analyze VMSTAT files for system resource utilization.

Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaC#2.0C#3.0VS2008.NETDevQA

PDF Parser and FlateDecoder

23 Jul 2009

Corey Fournier

Demonstrates how to parse objects in a PDF and inflate FlateDecode sections.

C#VBWindowsDevIntermediate

Document Preview Application

2 Jul 2009

Tamer Oz

An application to preview your documents and files such as PDF, Doc, JPG, PPT, XSL.

WinXPWin2003VistaC#3.0.NET3.5VS2008DevLINQIntermediateAdvanced

FileTrack: Co-Editing Files without Tears

19 Jun 2009

Gabriyel

A nifty tool to help people track changes in files in real-time

VBWindows.NETDevBeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Directory Mirroring the way it should work

9 Jun 2009

Jim Parsells

Create useful directory restore points, quickly and easily.

WinXPVistaVB9.0VS2008Win32DevIntermediateSysAdminWinForm

Synchro

20 May 2009

Eric Marcon

A control to synchronize folder contents.

.NET2.0VS2005VBWindowsDevIntermediate

Backup of Data files - Full and Incremental

16 May 2009

Donsw

Full and incremental backup of files.

C#3.0.NET3.5XMLWindowsDevIntermediate

Backup Project Files to Gmail

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.

.NET3.5C#Win32DevIntermediateWinForm

Writing a Total Commander plug-in in Visual Basic (or C#)

8 Mar 2009

Đonny

This article introduces and describes a framework that allows the creation of managed plug-ins for the Total Commander file manager.

WinXPWin2003VistaVB9.0.NET3.5VS2008C++/CLIWin32DevAdvanced

Parse C++ header and CPP files for class names and their methods

19 Feb 2009

rj45

Parsing C++ header and CPP files for class names and methods.

C#2.0.NETDevBeginner

Generate PDF Using C#

1 Feb 2009

Predrag Tomasevic

Using OpenOffice to convert different document types to PDF.

C#2.0C#3.0.NET3.5VS2008C#XMLWindows.NETDevIntermediate

Get useful directory paths

18 Jan 2009

Shup

An article on easily finding the paths of commonly used user specific directories.

Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS2005WinMobile5VS2008C++Win32Dev

Windows Explorer in XP: Now with Checkboxes and Fullrowselect

8 Jan 2009

The Everator

Customizing XP with Vista features

WinXPC#.NETWin32DevIntermediate

FDump - Dumping File Sectors Directly from Disk using Logical Offsets

8 Jan 2009

Armen Hakobyan

An article on reading file sectors directly from disk using logical offsets

CWindowsAdvanced

Duplicate Files Finder

15 Dec 2008

eRRaTuM

A utility to find any duplicate file in your hard drives using MD5 hashing.

C#2.0C#3.0C#.NETDevIntermediate

Use FileSystemWatcher in a Practical Scenario

3 Dec 2008

interface Mirror

Use FileSystemWatcher in a practical scenario

.NET1.0.NET1.1.NET2.0VS.NET2003VS2005.NET3.0.NET3.5VS2008C#Dev

Backup Utility

20 Nov 2008

Micah Burnett

A simple OO backup utility that preserves full file paths

.NET2.0WinXPWin2003VistaC#DevIntermediateSysAdminWinForm

Separate Into Pages File Reader

6 Nov 2008

Pedram Behroozi

Separate your files into pages, so you can view your really large files in less than a second!

C#WindowsVisual-StudioIntermediate

Workaround: svn:externals with a space in the directory name

17 Oct 2008

Riaan Lehmkuhl

TSVN Post-Update hook utility for using svn:externals with a space in the directory name.

WinXPWin2003VistaC#2.0DevIntermediateSysAdmin

DeleteOld : Console Application to Delete Files by Age

17 Oct 2008

CodeBureau - Matt Simner

A C# console application for deleting files based on age.

.NET1.1VS.NET2003C++C#WindowsDevIntermediate

Software's List Installed on Windows Machine

30 Sep 2008

SurendraKishore

This program gets the list of softwares installed on Windows running machine

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS2005C#2.0.NET3.0C#3.0VB8.0

Volume File Renaming for the Eccentric

19 Sep 2008

thund3rstruck

Renaming files with a multi-file renamer.

WinXPVistaVS2005C#2.0DevBeginnerSysAdmin

.NET Framework Zip / UnZip Tool Using the Packaging Namespace

10 Sep 2008

Mayur Chauhan

An UI tool that can be used to zip and unzip a file.

WinXPC#2.0C#3.0.NET3.5VS2008C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDev

DirectoryList 2.0

18 Aug 2008

nirvansk815

A custom listbox control to help visually manipulate data.

.NET2.0VS2005VS2008C++C++/CLI.NETWin32Visual-StudioIntermediateVC9.0

The FileSplitter reLoaded

11 Aug 2008

eRRaTuM

Utilty to quickly split and merge files.

.NET1.1.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS.NET2003VS2005C#Dev

Split Files

2 Aug 2008

SHRIDHAR TL

Split huge files into many small pieces as specified by the user.

VS2005C#2.0C#3.0VS2008C#Windows.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Duplicate File Finder

2 Aug 2008

Arman S.

A tool that finds duplicate files in your system.

VC7.1Win2KWinXPC++CWindowsWin32MFCIntermediate

High Performance Unicode Text File I/O Routines for C++

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.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS2005Win32

Simple .NET PDF Merger

31 Jul 2008

Michael Ulmann

A simple .NET PDF merger that supports header and footer text.

C#2.0C#3.0C#Windows.NETWin32DevIntermediate

CBR/CBZ Comics in C#

31 Jul 2008

thund3rstruck

Interaction with CBZ/CBR comic books in C#.

.NET2.0C#2.0C#3.0C#.NETWin32DevIntermediate

Basic File IO and the DataGridView

26 Jul 2008

Keith Rimington

Create a versatile line reading application using the .NET StreamReader and the DataGridView.

.NET2.0VS2005C#WindowsDevIntermediate

Tree structure generator

3 Jun 2008

Ashutosh Phoujdar

A small utility program that can help in visualizing the existing directory structure in terms of graphs.

.NET2.0C#2.0C#.NETDevDesignIntermediate

MTCopy: A Multi-threaded Single/Multi File Copying Tool

28 May 2008

LiYS

An article on the implementation and usage of a multi-threaded single/multi file copying tool.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0WindowsWin32DevIntermediate

Verify the integrity of directory trees using Checksum Verifier

15 May 2008

Ashutosh Phoujdar

A small utility to verify checksums.

.NET2.0VS2005VB7.xVB8.0VB9.0VB6VB.NETVisual-StudioDev

Automating Multipart Zip File Creation

21 Apr 2008

awln

Automatically creating multipart Zip files.

Win2KWinXPC#2.0C#3.0C#WindowsDevIntermediateWinForm

Folder Listener: A Tool to Watch File System Activity in any Folder

27 Jan 2008

Ashwini K Singh

This tool is for the tester and developer to track any file system activity to a particular folder

Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaC#2.0C#WindowsDevQABeginner

Disk Analyzer

25 Jan 2008

Vivek Krishnamurthy

A disk analyzer using C#.

Win2KWinXPWin2003Vista.NET3.0C#3.0.NET3.5C#Windows.NET

VersionInfo Parser

26 Aug 2007

Reto Ravasio

A simple parser for VERSIONINFO resources contained in a DLL or EXE.

.NET2.0WinXPVS2005C#2.0DevIntermediateWinForm

UnZipper: a File Extraction Tool

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.

File Dialog Filter Builder

31 Jul 2007

Jakub Mller

Helper class for building filter string for Windows file dialogs

.NET2.0VS2005C#2.0WindowsDevBeginnerWinForm

Synchronize up to seven folders with System.IO.FileSystemWatcher in .NET

7 Jun 2007

GC9N

An app to synchronize up to seven folders with System.IO.FileSystemWatcher in .NET.

Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS2005VB.NETDevIntermediate

Log Monitor

6 Jun 2007

Vance Kessler

This article describes how to write an application to monitor text log files

.NET2.0C#2.0WindowsVisual-StudioDevIntermediateWinForm

A utility to read, edit, encrypt, decrypt, and write XmlStore files

12 Mar 2007

victorbos

A utility to read, edit, encrypt, decrypt, write XmlStore files.

.NET2.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VS2005C#2.0DevIntermediate

Getting File Version Information

28 Dec 2006

Agus Kurniawan

Getting file version information using C# 2.0.

File-Text Replacement Tool

22 Nov 2006

Chris Hambleton

A utility that substitutes file names from a file collection into a text template.

VC6VC7VC7.1VC8.0Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003VS2005MFC

Simple Multi-Logger (No MFC)

10 Oct 2006

Daniel Grondin

A simple HTML and plain-text logger.

Editing Unix Files in Windows

26 Jul 2006

B.Rajarajan

This is a very simple tool to edit Unix files in Windows.

.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaVS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

File Watcher that Auto Moves Your Working Files from the VS.NET Project Folder

23 Feb 2006

wenjunw.comnt8

An article on separating your working file from Visual Studio .NET 2003 solutions.

Massive unzip application

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.

VBWindows.NETVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

DiscoUtils: Find All Files (non-recursive, easy-to-use file finder)

25 Nov 2005

daylightdj

A re-usable file finder algorithm using hashtables.

WinXPC++CVisual-StudioDevIntermediate

Dump a file in Windows

14 Nov 2005

John Jiyang Hou

This program can dump a file to the standard output in Windows.

Converting RTF to TXT format

13 Aug 2005

kubben

Using Word Automation for converting files to XML, RTF, TXT, HTML, etc. formats.

C# RIFF Parser

6 Jun 2005

gtamir

Decode Resource Interchange Files (AVI, WAV, RMID...) using this pure C# parser.

.NET1.0.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VistaC#Visual-StudioDevIntermediate

Enhanced File Renaming Utility

14 Jan 2005

Nitin Kunte

Enhanced file renaming utility to improve on the "ren" command provided by MS DOS.

Counting Lines of Code in C#

19 Dec 2004

Seato

An article on recursively counting lines of code in files from a given directory.

.NET1.0.NET1.1WinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediateWinForm

Utilty to split and merge files

6 Dec 2004

eRRaTuM

A simple C#/.NET utility to split files (upto 2 GB) to parts.

Folder, Drive, Directory Browser

13 Sep 2004

vivekthangaswamy

Folder, drive, directory browser application.

.NET1.0.NET1.1VS.NET2003C#VBWindowsDevIntermediate

XML Namespace Shell Extension

23 Aug 2004

Colin Savage

A shell extension to associate applications with particular XML namespaces.

.NET1.0C#WindowsDevIntermediate

Console App for deleting files in a specified directory based on user inputted timestamp

8 Jul 2004

Arunkumar Viswanathan

Very useful in running as a scheduled task to delete unwanted files accumulating in a directory

Tail.NET

29 Jun 2004

Taylor Wood

How to read changes from log files as they are written to. Similar to "tail" from UNIX.

.NET1.0.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

FileCollector

3 Jun 2004

BenDi

A simple tool for collecting files, written in C#, with shell32 support.

Catalog Now!

10 Apr 2004

sergiols

Track all your files, locally, on CD-ROMs, and on removables.

.NET1.1Win2KWinXPWin2003VS.NET2003C#DevIntermediate

Console App in C# to rename files in a directory

18 Mar 2004

Per R. Anderson

Console App in C# to rename files in a directory