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Example of the usage of Directory IO class and the parsing of strings to DateTime.

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  1. string directoryPath = string.Empty;
  2.  
  3. try
  4. {
  5. 	// suppose that the sub-directories of directoryPath contain Ghibli movies information, each directory is named after the release date of the particular movie, in the format yyyyMMdd
  6. 	directoryPath = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["DirectoryPath"];
  7. 	string[] subDirectories = Directory.GetDirectories(directoryPath);
  8.  
  9. 	foreach (string directory in subDirectories)
  10. 	{
  11. 		string currentDirectory = directory.Substring(directory.LastIndexOf('\\') + 1);
  12.  
  13. 		try
  14. 		{
  15. 			// parsing the directory name to create a DateTime object
  16. 			DateTime releaseDate = DateTime.ParseExact(currentDirectory, "yyyyMMdd", new CultureInfo("en-US", false));
  17.  
  18. 			// getting the month name from the month number
  19. 			string monthName = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(releaseDate.Month);
  20. 			Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Found a movie that was released on {0}, {1}.", monthName, releaseDate.Year));
  21.  
  22. 		}
  23. 		catch (FormatException)
  24. 		{
  25. 			// could not parse due to the format of directory name
  26. 			continue;
  27. 		}
  28. 		catch(Exception ex)
  29. 		{
  30. 			Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
  31. 		}
  32. 	}
  33. }
  34. catch (UnauthorizedAccessException uaex)
  35. {
  36. 	Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Access to {0} was denied. Error message: {1}", directoryPath, uaex.Message));
  37. }
  38. catch (Exception ex)
  39. {
  40. 	Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
  41. }

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