[RESOLVED] When was text file created?

I want to display the date a text file was created and modified could anyone point me in the right direction? Visual studio 2008

Thank you :wave:

By searching I found these solutions but I cannot get them to work.

File.GetLastWriteTime(fileName)

and

File.GetCreationTime(fileName)

Any idea's?

MSDN?

Code:

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Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text

Public Class Test
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Try
            ' Get the creation time of a well-known directory.
            Dim dt As DateTime = Directory.GetCreationTime(Environment.CurrentDirectory)

            ' Give feedback to the user.
            If (DateTime.Now.Subtract(dt).TotalDays > 364) Then
                Console.WriteLine("This directory is over a year old.")
            ElseIf (DateTime.Now.Subtract(dt).TotalDays > 30) Then
                Console.WriteLine("This directory is over a month old.")
            ElseIf (DateTime.Now.Subtract(dt).TotalDays <= 1) Then
                Console.WriteLine("This directory is less than a day old.")
            Else
                Console.WriteLine("This directory was created on {0}.", dt)
            End If

        Catch e As Exception
            Console.WriteLine("The process failed: {0}", e.ToString())
        End Try
    End Sub
End Class

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ationtime.aspx

Sorry, but that didn't work.

Sorry, but that didn't work.

It seems this is one of those many things that VB.net is not very good at. In VB6 I use to do it like so...

Code:

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Requires reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime
    Dim fso As FileSystemObject
    Set fso = New FileSystemObject
    TempDate = Left(fso.GetFile(UserString).DateLastModified, 6) & Mid(fso.GetFile(UserString).DateLastModified, 9, 2)

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I cannot get them to work

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do your code have enough permissions? If not, you will not find the file at all...
What did you get with the code dglienna posted?

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Originally Posted by DataMiser

If I remember correctly there is a fileinfo property that should give you want you need.

btw FSO is not a good way to do this in VB6 either. This is used by a lot of people it seems but is really meant for VBScripting. VB6 has much better ways to handle files than using FSO

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Can you by any chance remember how to use "fileinfo"? I have tried it a few ways without result.

That VB6 code I got from these forums, years back, and it worked well for me at the time. :)

If I remember correctly there is a fileinfo property that should give you want you need.

btw FSO is not a good way to do this in VB6 either. This is used by a lot of people it seems but is really meant for VBScripting. VB6 has much better ways to handle files than using FSO

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Originally Posted by dajunka

Can you by any chance remember how to use "fileinfo"? I have tried it a few ways without result.

That VB6 code I got from these forums, years back, and it worked well for me at the time. :)

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It is pretty simple.

Code:

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Dim F as new System.IO.FileInfo("\MyFile.Txt")
msgbox (F.CreationTime)

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A simple search of your online help should have provided this for you

Your right DataMiser, and I did find it, but the examples I found all had errors of one kind or another.

On the other hand your answer worked perfectly, thank you very much, I can now proceed with my little program. :wave: