Copy past file in textbox to a path destination

Nbl Bz

Hello dear all !
Am a big beginner !
I want to browse file path in a text box ( i dot it yees ) !then now i want to copy and past this file from this source path to a path destination

Something like this

When i clic on add file , i browse my file
then , when i clic to connect i want to copy this file from this link in text box to a path destination .

It's possible ? i hope yes becase it's my only solution to have a copy

thanks u

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Wim Sturkenboom12y ago
Accepted answer
Next thing to look at is the System.IO.FileInfo class. Below uses this to extract the filename from the path.

// extract filename from path
System.IO.FileInfo fi = new System.IO.FileInfo(TextBox1.Text);
string filename = fi.Name;

// create destination filename by combining path and name
string yourdestination = yourdestinationpath + fi.Name;

// copy
System.IO.File.Copy(TextBox1.Text, yourdestination);

Note: make sure that yourdestinationpath ends with a path separator ('\' in windows).

Note: Both this and the previous post are not tested :-)
Nbl Bz12y ago
After 4 hour !!!
It's woooooooork
without this line
string yourdestination = @"C:\Users\nab\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\proj\" + fi.Name;

I put the +fi.Name after

System.IO.File.Copy(textBox1.Text, @"C:\Users\nab\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\proj\" + fi.Name );

THANKS !!!
Nbl Bz12y ago

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

System.IO.

FileInfo fi = new System.IO.FileInfo(textBox1.Text);

string filename = fi.Name;

string yourdestination = @"C:\Users\nab\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\proj\" + fi.Name;

System.IO.File.Copy(textBox1.Text, @"C:\Users\nab\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\proj\" );

my path exist :(

}
Wim Sturkenboom12y ago
Your destination path does not exist ;-) Time to show the declaration of the destination path and how you assign a value to it.
Nbl Bz12y ago
With separator , he did not find a part of the path ! i dont know why !
Nbl Bz12y ago

it generate exception that is a path no a file !! ?
Wim Sturkenboom12y ago
Look at the OpenFileDialog; something like

OpenFileDialog openFileDialog1 = new OpenFileDialog();
openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "c:\\" ;
openFileDialog1.Filter = "txt files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*" ; openFileDialog1.FilterIndex = 2 ;
openFileDialog1.RestoreDirectory = true ;
if(openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
TextBox1.Text = openFileDialog1.FileName;
}

For the copying, look at System.IO.File.Copy.
e.g.

System.IO.File.Copy(TextBox1.Text, yourdestination);