How to display files in a multiple directory?

Emre Ozpalamutcu

I'm making a mini disk cleaner and I have wrote this code:

listView1.Items.Clear();
DirectoryInfo dirCustom = new DirectoryInfo("C:\\Windows\\");
FileInfo[] filCustom;
filCustom = dirCustom.GetFiles("*.txt");
foreach (FileInfo filFile in filCustom)
{
listView1.Items.Add(filFile.Name, "test");
}

However there are some missing parts, works fine but i need to search multiple path and extensions and it only displays the file name on the list view on detailed view. I want it to display the folder path and file size.

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Emre Ozpalamutcu14y ago
don't worry the problem is solved, i managed to do it.

Thanks for try to help.
Vulpes14y ago
You can add subitems to the ListView as follows:

foreach (FileInfo filFile in filCustom)
{
ListViewItem lvi = listView1.Items.Add(filFile.Name, "test");
lvi.SubItems.Add(filFile.FullName); // not sure whether this is the property you want?
lvi.SubItems.Add(filFile.Length.ToString());
}

To deal with other folder paths or extensions, I suggest you add a couple of TextBoxes to allow the user to specify these and then use their Text properties in place of the folder path and extension you hard-coded earlier.