DirectoryInfo::CreateSubdirectory Method (String^)

.NET Framework (current version)

Creates a subdirectory or subdirectories on the specified path. The specified path can be relative to this instance of the DirectoryInfo class.

Namespace: System.IO
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

C++

public:
DirectoryInfo^ CreateSubdirectory(
	String^ path
)

Parameters

path: Type: System::String^
The specified path. This cannot be a different disk volume or Universal Naming Convention (UNC) name.

Return Value

Type: System.IO::DirectoryInfo^

The last directory specified in path.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentException	path does not specify a valid file path or contains invalid DirectoryInfo characters.
ArgumentNullException	path is null.
DirectoryNotFoundException	The specified path is invalid, such as being on an unmapped drive.
IOException	The subdirectory cannot be created. -or- A file or directory already has the name specified by path.
PathTooLongException	The specified path, file name, or both exceed the system-defined maximum length. For example, on Windows-based platforms, paths must be less than 248 characters, and file names must be less than 260 characters. The specified path, file name, or both are too long.
SecurityException	The caller does not have code access permission to create the directory. -or- The caller does not have code access permission to read the directory described by the returned DirectoryInfo object. This can occur when the path parameter describes an existing directory.
NotSupportedException	path contains a colon character (:) that is not part of a drive label ("C:\").

Any and all directories specified in path are created, unless some part of path is invalid. The path parameter specifies a directory path, not a file path. If the subdirectory already exists, this method does nothing.

Note
Path names are limited to 248 characters.

For a list of common I/O tasks, see Common I-O Tasks.

Examples

The following example demonstrates creating a subdirectory. In this example, the created directories are removed once created. Therefore, to test this sample, comment out the delete lines in the code.

C++

using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
int main()
{

   // Create a reference to a directory.
   DirectoryInfo^ di = gcnew DirectoryInfo( "TempDir" );

   // Create the directory only if it does not already exist.
   if ( di->Exists == false )
      di->Create();


   // Create a subdirectory in the directory just created.
   DirectoryInfo^ dis = di->CreateSubdirectory( "SubDir" );

   // Process that directory as required.
   // ...
   // Delete the subdirectory.
   dis->Delete( true );

   // Delete the directory.
   di->Delete( true );
}

Security

FileIOPermission

for reading and writing files. Associated enumerations: FileIOPermissionAccess::Read, FileIOPermissionAccess::Write

Version Information

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 10
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0