How to: Copy Directories
.NET Framework 4.5
This example demonstrates how to use I/O classes to synchronously copy a directory from one location to another. In this example, the user can specify whether to also copy the subdirectories. If the subdirectories are copied, the method in this example recursively copies them by calling itself on each subsequent subdirectory until there are no more to copy.
For an example of copying files asynchronously, see Asynchronous File I/O.
using System; using System.IO; class DirectoryCopyExample { static void Main() { DirectoryCopy(".", @".\temp", true); } private static void DirectoryCopy(string sourceDirName, string destDirName, bool copySubDirs) { DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(sourceDirName); DirectoryInfo[] dirs = dir.GetDirectories(); if (!dir.Exists) { throw new DirectoryNotFoundException( "Source directory does not exist or could not be found: " + sourceDirName); } if (!Directory.Exists(destDirName)) { Directory.CreateDirectory(destDirName); } FileInfo[] files = dir.GetFiles(); foreach (FileInfo file in files) { string temppath = Path.Combine(destDirName, file.Name); file.CopyTo(temppath, false); } if (copySubDirs) { foreach (DirectoryInfo subdir in dirs) { string temppath = Path.Combine(destDirName, subdir.Name); DirectoryCopy(subdir.FullName, temppath, copySubDirs); } } } }
