Hi all

Ive created a simple program that opens up certain folders on my local and network drives by clicking on specific buttons, it acts as a navigation menu because i spend far too long clicking around to get to the right folders.

But the way it works isn't really good enough.

The way the folders are set up on my computer is like this...We have a main customer job folder, within this folder are several subfolders that are split down by month, and then within each of these folders are a list of subfolders split down by the days date.

So the folder structure looks like this -

-----Customer Name
-------------------May 2007
-------------------------------01/05/2007
-------------------------------02/05/2007
-------------------------------03/05/2007
-------------------June 2007
-------------------------------01/06/2007
-------------------------------02/06/2007
-------------------------------03/06/2007
-------------------Jul 2007
-------------------------------01/07/2007
-------------------------------02/07/2007
-------------------------------03/07/2007


The only folder I'm ever interested in opening is the most recent date, so if it was july the 3rd, I'd want to open "customer name/july 2007/03-07-2007".

However, the program I have created only opens up the main "customer folder" because im only using basic linking, and if i linked to a more specific date, I'd constantly have to change the code each day to open the new days date.
This is the code I'm using for each button-


Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Process.Start("\\IFADATAFLOW1\Avery LTD\Oct 2007\03/09/2007")

End Sub


It would be much better if i could get some code that would look within the "Customer Name" folder and then access the folder with the most recent creation date within it, this would take me to the folder for the current month, and then it would finally open the most recently created folder within that too, which would, as an end result, open up the folder for todays date, or at least the most recent date.

Is this possible? And if so how would I go about it?

I hope someone can help, this is something that has been bothering me for a while now!

I'm using visual basic express to create this program by the way.

This post has been edited by Camus: 3 Oct, 2007 - 04:28 AM

First off, Visual Basic Express is VB.Net so Im moving thos topic to the appropriate forum.

Second, yes you can accomplish this, you'll need to research a few things in the System.IO Namespace:

• Directory Class
• DirectoryInfo Class
  • CreationTime Property
  • Attributes Property

Those will get you headed in the right direction, if, after researching those items, and writing code to solve this issue you run into problems, come and post your code with a full explanation of whats going on:

• Whats it doing
• Whats it supposed to be doing
• Any errors you're encountering

And someone will be more than happy to help

Hey, thanks for the reply - this is the code I am using to navigate to the main customer folder...





I'll have a look at those topics you linked to, it looks a bit beyond my understanding, but I'll give it a go.
In the meantime, if anyone could show me how I could implement that into my code, that'd be great.

This post has been edited by Camus: 3 Oct, 2007 - 07:10 AM

I've read those help topics that you linked to Psycho...

These bits seem to be what I'm looking for -




I have no idea how to implement that into my code though.

At the moment I have several buttons that each open up a different folder on my network drive (the customer folder - see above post). The code I have attached to each button is this -



So that code opens the main folder i want, but what I want it to do is to access the most recently created subfolder within it and then open up the most recently created subfolder within that as a final result, so i will arrive at the folder created on todays date, or at least the most recent date. I've explained that need in a bit more detail above.

Could you give me a hand with this?

I've managed to get the button to open the 'Customer Folder' and then the specific month subfolder using this code...



So it's opening the folder for the current month provided it's filename is in the format of 'Oct 2007'.

Now I just need to find a way of getting it to open the correct days folder as well, anyone got any ideas?

It was suggested to me to look into using 'Date.Compare()', but I'm not sure how to do this.

I think I've sorted that problem too...I'm using this code -







Now my only problem is that this line -




Is showing this error - 'getdirectories' is not a member of 'String'.

Can anyone explain why this is?