partial class Form3 : Form

{

public Form3()

{

InitializeComponent();

}

private void Form3_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

//count files in a folder

System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(@"c:\test");

int filesCouunt = dir.GetFiles().Length;

this.label1.Text = "There're " + filesCouunt.ToString() + " files" ;

//pass folder name and current time to listview

string name = dir.Name;

DateTime time = DateTime.Now;

ListViewItem item = new ListViewItem(new string[]{name,time.ToString()});

this.listView1.Items.Add(item);

this.listView1.Columns.Add("directory name");

this.listView1.Columns.Add("time");

this.listView1.View = View.Details;

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

//move folder to another destination

System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(@"c:\test");

dir.MoveTo(@"c:\test2");

}

}

For manipulating a directory, see the DirectoryInfo class in System.IO. The MoveTo method will move the directory, while GetFiles and GetDirectories will give you arrays of FileInfo and DirectoryInfo instances. The lengths of these arrays will tell you how many files or folders are contained in the parent folder. This seems like a relatively expensive way of counting files but I haven't found anything better.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directoryinfo.aspx

For manipulating dates and times, use the DateTime class. The properrty DateTime.Now returns a DateTime object for the current date and time when Now is accessed..

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx

To add items to a ListView, create a ListViewItem to represent the top level item you are adding, call item.SubItems.Add to add sub items to that item and then add that item to the ListView

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.aspx

partial class Form3 : Form

{

public Form3()

{

InitializeComponent();

}

private void Form3_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

//count files in a folder

System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(@"c:\test");

int filesCouunt = dir.GetFiles().Length;

this.label1.Text = "There're " + filesCouunt.ToString() + " files" ;

//pass folder name and current time to listview

string name = dir.Name;

DateTime time = DateTime.Now;

ListViewItem item = new ListViewItem(new string[]{name,time.ToString()});

this.listView1.Items.Add(item);

this.listView1.Columns.Add("directory name");

this.listView1.Columns.Add("time");

this.listView1.View = View.Details;

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

//move folder to another destination

System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(@"c:\test");

dir.MoveTo(@"c:\test2");

}

}

Thanks man you are the best..! Its a good start.. I need to get the filescount also to the listview1 with the time and name.. And i have a question, the path are saved by a user in an .txt file in row 2. how do i collect the path in to this code.. and it can be more than one path..?

it would help me allot...!!