What does "Directory.Delete( "path", false )" do?

Question

According to the doucmentation for "Directory.Delete( "path", true )", it remove directories, subdirectories, and files in the path.

What does Directory.Delete( "path", false ) do? According to the doucmentation it does "otherwise".

I mean how can you delete a directory without removing the directory, subdirectories, and files?

Answer 1

Bill James is correct. According to MSDN, if the recursive parameter is false and the directory is not empty, IOException will be thrown.