VirtualDirectory Class
Represents a directory object in a virtual file or resource space.
System::MarshalByRefObject
System.Web.Hosting::VirtualFileBase
System.Web.Hosting::VirtualDirectory
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
The VirtualDirectory type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Children | Gets a list of the files and subdirectories contained in this virtual directory. |
![]() | Directories | Gets a list of all the subdirectories contained in this directory. |
![]() | Files | Gets a list of all files contained in this directory. |
![]() | IsDirectory | Gets a value that indicates that this is a virtual resource that should be treated as a directory. (Overrides VirtualFileBase::IsDirectory.) |
![]() | Name | Gets the display name of the virtual resource. (Inherited from VirtualFileBase.) |
![]() | VirtualPath | Gets the virtual file path. (Inherited from VirtualFileBase.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | CreateObjRef | Creates an object that contains all the relevant information required to generate a proxy used to communicate with a remote object. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.) |
![]() | Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetLifetimeService | Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.) |
![]() | GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | InitializeLifetimeService | Gives a VirtualFileBase instance an infinite lifetime by preventing a lease from being created. (Inherited from VirtualFileBase.) |
![]() | MemberwiseClone() | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | MemberwiseClone(Boolean) | Creates a shallow copy of the current MarshalByRefObject object. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.) |
![]() | ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
The VirtualDirectory class is the base class for objects that represent directories in a virtual file system. Typically, you would implement a descendent of the VirtualDirectory class for each VirtualPathProvider class descendent in your Web application.
Notes to InheritorsWhen you inherit from the VirtualDirectory class, you must override the Children, Directories, and Files properties to return an object implementing the IEnumerable interface.
If your virtual-directory structure contains moderate to large numbers of virtual resources, you should take care to minimize the system resources consumed when enumerating the virtual directory by calling the Children, Directories, or Files properties.
The following code example is a VirtualDirectory class implementation that returns virtual directory information stored in a DataSet object. This code works with the code examples for the VirtualPathProvider and VirtualFile classes to provide virtual resources from a data store that is loaded into a DataSet object. For the complete instructions for compiling and running the example, see the Example section of the VirtualPathProvider class overview.
This example has two parts, the VirtualDirectory class implementation and the XML data file used to populate the DataSet object.
The first code example is an implementation of the VirtualDirectory class. In the constructor it uses a method on a custom VirtualPathProvider object to return a DataSet object. It then searches the DataSet object to retrieve the directory information associated with the virtual path provided.
The second example is the XML data file used to populate the DataSet object returned by the custom VirtualPathProvider object. This XML data is used to demonstrate using the VirtualPathProvider, VirtualFile, and VirtualDirectory classes to retrieve data from external data, and is not intended to represent a production-quality data store.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<resource type="dir"
path="/vrDir"
parentPath=""
content="">
<resource type="file"
path="/vrDir/Level1FileA.vrf"
parentPath="/vrDir"
content="This is the content of file Level1FileA." >
</resource>
<resource type="file"
path="/vrDir/Level1FileB.vrf"
parentPath="/vrDir"
content="This is the content of file Level1FileB.">
</resource>
<resource type="dir"
path="/vrDir/Level2DirA"
parentPath="/vrDir"
content="">
<resource type="file"
path="/vrDir/Level2DirA/Level2FileA.vrf"
parentPath="/vrDir/Level2DirA"
content="This is the content of file Level2FileA." >
</resource>
<resource type="file"
path="/vrDir/Level2DirA/Level2FileB.vrf"
parentPath="/vrDir/Level2DirA"
content="This is the content of file Level2FileB.">
</resource>
</resource>
<resource type="dir"
path="/vrDir/Level2DirB"
parentPath="/vrDir"
content="">
<resource type="file"
path="/vrDir/Level2DirB/Level2FileA.vrf"
parentPath="/vrDir/Level2DirB"
content="This is the content of file Level2FileA." >
</resource>
<resource type="file"
path="/vrDir/Level2DirB/Level2FileB.vrf"
parentPath="/vrDir/Level2DirB"
content="This is the content of file Level2FileB.">
</resource>
</resource>
</resource>
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
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