Question

How can I have a webservice read/browse a folder content ?

For instance this type of code:

    FolderBrowserDialog folderBrowser;
    folderBrowser = new System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog();

    folderBrowser.Description = "...";
    folderBrowser.ShowNewFolderButton = false;
    folderBrowser.RootFolder = Environment.SpecialFolder.MyComputer;

When I build the solution I get this error…

The type or namespace name
‘FolderBrowserDialog’ could not be
found (are you missing a using
directive or an assembly reference?)

I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense trying to use a dialog in a webservice but how else can I do it?

My webservice receives a string and then I want to browse for files that contain that string in a folder.

Answer 1

You’ll need to use System.IO namespace to navigate into your filesystem; as you noted, doesn’t make sense trying to display a dialog on a webservice call.