Using the XCOPY command you can copy files and folders from one machine to another machine.

Here I will show you how we can execute XCOPY using C # but before showing that piece of code I would prefer to provide some explanations of XCOPY. So, here you go:

1. In computing, Xcopy is a command used in PC DOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and related operating systems for copying multiple files or entire directory trees from one directory to another and for copying files across a network. Xcopy stands for extended copy, and was created as a more functional file copying utility than the copy command found in these operating systems.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcopy

To get more details about XCOPY you can visit the following link:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491035.aspx

Xcopy is more powerful than a simple copy function in .Net like-: Xcopy does a lot of things (buffering, error check, etc.) that are not easy to code by yourself, but you can always start a new process with Xcopy in the command line.

Here is the Code for the same:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Diagnostics;

using System.IO;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading;

namespace Xcopy

{

/// <summary>

/// Use This class to Perform Xcopy

/// </summary>

class Program

{

/// <summary>

/// This is your Main

/// </summary>

/// <param name="args"></param>

static void Main(string[] args)

{

//Provide the Source location

string sourceLoc = @"D:\BackUpFile\";

//Provide your Destination Location

string destinationLoc = System.Environment.CurrentDirectory.Remove(System.Environment.CurrentDirectory.IndexOf("bin")) + "Source\\";

string FolderPath = "CopiedFiles";

if (!(Directory.Exists(destinationLoc + @"\" + FolderPath)))

Directory.CreateDirectory(destinationLoc + @"\" + FolderPath);

//Call a method to perform Xcopy

ProcessXcopy(sourceLoc, destinationLoc + @"\" + FolderPath);

Console.WriteLine("we are done with the xcopy");

}

/// <summary>

/// Method to Perform Xcopy to copy files/folders from Source machine to Target Machine

/// </summary>

/// <param name="SolutionDirectory"></param>

/// <param name="TargetDirectory"></param>

private static void ProcessXcopy(string SolutionDirectory, string TargetDirectory)

{

// Use ProcessStartInfo class

ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();

startInfo.CreateNoWindow = false;

startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;

//Give the name as Xcopy

startInfo.FileName = "xcopy";

//make the window Hidden

startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;

//Send the Source and destination as Arguments to the process

startInfo.Arguments = "\"" + SolutionDirectory + "\"" + " " + "\"" + TargetDirectory + "\"" + @" /e /y /I";

try

{

// Start the process with the info we specified.

// Call WaitForExit and then the using statement will close.

using (Process exeProcess = Process.Start(startInfo))

{

exeProcess.WaitForExit();

}

}

catch (Exception exp)

{

throw exp;

}

}

}

}