The given code snippets is used to generate the Directory Structure to an XML File.
This XML File can be used in various ways, for appending in treeview, store as a file, export in string format etc.
public
String getXMLFromDirectoryStructure(){
try
{
string ProjectFolder = "Project"; //absolute path for project
string appPath = "C:\Project"; //absolute path for project
string bodyFile = Path.Combine(appPath, @"Snippets\");
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(
"< $ProjectFolder$ name=\"$ProjectFolder$\" type=\"DIR\">" + "</$ProjectFolder$>");
DirectoryInfo mainDir = new DirectoryInfo(bodyFile);
foreach (DirectoryInfo dir in mainDir.GetDirectories())
{
XmlElement elem = GetData(dir.FullName, doc);
doc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(elem);
}
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter tx = new XmlTextWriter(sw);
doc.WriteTo(tx);
doc.Save(bodyFile +
"\\" + "Path.xml");return sw.ToString();
}
catch (Exception)
{
}
return "";
}
private static XmlElement GetData(string dirName, XmlDocument doc)
{
//create a new node for this directory
XmlElement elem = doc.CreateElement("dir");
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(dirName);
elem.SetAttribute(
"name", di.Name);elem.SetAttribute(
"type", "DIR");foreach (DirectoryInfo dinf in di.GetDirectories())
{
//Recursively call the directory with all underlying dirs and files
XmlElement elemDir = GetData(dirName + "\\" + dinf.Name, doc);
if (dinf.GetDirectories().Count() + dinf.GetFiles().Count() == 0)
{
elemDir.InnerText =
"";}
elem.AppendChild(elemDir);
}
return elem;
}
Submitted By Nipesh Shah @ 9/19/2011 4:56:27 PM
