Question

At the moment, I have a main folder which has 320 sub folders and I’m saving those folder names into to sql server DB in a temporarytable. Then I retrieve that data, consume it, and then delete it.

To pullout folder names I use:

`List<string> FolderInfoList = Directory.GetDirectories(stringFolderPath).ToList();`

My temporary tablehas 2 columns (ID, Name), of which ID is an auto increment field.

Then I save name detail into a second table which will be resulted

After that I retrieve each and every folder name using the id, I use and I will delete after using it.

Since my manager requested me to not to use database, I need to find an alternative solution. I know there is a way using Dictionary function but I don’t know how to use it or how to assign a unique id for an individual folder name or when I retrieve all the folders name List function, I retrieve them as a list, not individually. I need to manipulate same function using any alternative method.

Answer 1

you could try the following… it will then assign a unique guid for each folder stored in a new class for you

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.DirectoryServices;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Management.Automation;
using System.Management.Automation.Runspaces;

namespace zielonka.co.uk.stackoverflow.com.samples.unique
{
    class Program
    {
        public class info
        {
            public string name;
            public Guid uniqueID;
        }
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            List<string> FolderInfoList = Directory.GetDirectories("c:\\").ToList();
            List<info> uniqueFolders = new List<info>();
            foreach (var VARIABLE in FolderInfoList)
            {
                uniqueFolders.Add(new info(){name = VARIABLE, uniqueID = new Guid()});
            }
            foreach (var uniqueFolder in uniqueFolders)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(uniqueFolder.uniqueID+" "+uniqueFolder.name);
            }
        }
    }
}