DriveInfo question

Ryan

17y5.7kVisual Basic .NET

Im trying to get hard drive info and output it using Textbox.ReflectMessage. any idea how to do this

this is my code:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.IO;

namespace procCount

{

public partial class Form1 : Form

{

public Form1()

{

InitializeComponent();

}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

DriveInfo[] allDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();

foreach (DriveInfo c in allDrives)

{

TextBox.ReflectMessage = "Drive {0}" + c.Name;

TextBox.ReflectMessage = " File type: {0}" + c.DriveType;

if (c.IsReady == true)

{

TextBox.ReflectMessage = " Volume label: {0}" + c.VolumeLabel;

TextBox.ReflectMessage = " File system: {0}" + c.DriveFormat;

TextBox.ReflectMessage = " Available space to current user: {0, 100} bytes" + c.AvailableFreeSpace;

TextBox.ReflectMessage = " Total available space: {0, 100} bytes" + c.TotalFreeSpace;

TextBox.ReflectMessage = " Total size of drive: {0, 100} bytes" + c.TotalSize;

}

the out put i get is:

File type: {0}CDRom

and its in a text box just now showing me the info ....

thank you for your time.

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Ryan17y ago
I will keep that in mind. Thank you again for your help on that.
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Ryan Alford17y ago
I completely understand. For future references, when trying to set the text of a control(label, textbox, richtextbox, etc.), use the "[NameOfControl].Text" property(like the way that I did the richtextbox).
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Ryan17y ago
im a noob thats why hahahah im learning did the best i could with out asking questions and just using msdn ... I like to do things my self untill i get totaly backed in to a corner thanks alot !!!
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Ryan Alford17y ago
I've never seen somebody use that way to populate the text of a textbox.

I used a richtextbox since it's easier to display multi-line text.

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    DriveInfo[] allDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    foreach (DriveInfo c in allDrives)
    {
        sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Drive {0}", c.Name));
        sb.AppendLine(string.Format("File type: {0}", c.DriveType));

        if (c.IsReady)
        {
            sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Volume label: {0}", c.VolumeLabel));
            sb.AppendLine(string.Format("File System: {0}", c.DriveFormat));
            sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Available space to current user: {0}", c.AvailableFreeSpace));
            sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Total available space: {0}", c.TotalFreeSpace));
            sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Total size of drive: {0}", c.TotalSize));
        }
    }

    richTextBox1.Text = sb.ToString();
}
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