Get files in a folder

Question

In my MVC application I have the following paths;

• /content/images/full
• /content/images/thumbs

How would I, in my c# controller, get a list of all the files within my thumbs folder?

Edit

Is Server.MapPath still the best way?

I have this now DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(Server.MapPath("/content/images/thumbs") ); but feel it's not the right way.

is there a best practice in MVC for this or is the above still correct?

Answer 1

.NET 4.0 has got a more efficient method for this:

Directory.EnumerateFiles(Server.MapPath("~/Content/images/thumbs")); 

You get an IEnumerable<string> on which you can iterate on the view:

@model IEnumerable<string> <ul>     @foreach (var fullPath in Model)     {         var fileName = Path.GetFileName(fullPath);         <li>@fileName</li>     } </ul> 

Answer 2

Directory.GetFiles("/content/images/thumbs") 

That will get all the files in a directory into a string array.