Getting files by creation date in .NET

Question

I have a folder which contains many files. Is there any easy way to get the file names in the directory sorted by their creation date/time?

If I use Directory.GetFiles(), it returns the files sorted by their file name.

Answer 1

this could work for you.

using System.Linq;  DirectoryInfo info = new DirectoryInfo("PATH_TO_DIRECTORY_HERE"); FileInfo[] files = info.GetFiles().OrderBy(p => p.CreationTime).ToArray(); foreach (FileInfo file in files) {     // DO Something... } 

Answer 2

You can use Linq

var files = Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\", "*").OrderByDescending(d => new FileInfo(d).CreationTime);