I need help with FolderBrowserDialog w/DOS Commands

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here is my code for what i am having trouble with. the code to open the FolderBrowserDialog and select a folder works great. however, i am not sure how to put that into a dos command as indicated below.

Any help will be appreciated.

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Private Sub btnDirectory_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnDirectory.Click
        Dim objFolderDlg As System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog
        objFolderDlg = New System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog
        objFolderDlg.SelectedPath = "C:\Test"
        If objFolderDlg.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
            'this part still does not work, unable to execute all the dos commands.
            Shell("cmd /c CD{objFolderDlg.SelectedPath} dir /B >C:\Users\%USERNAME%\list\Directory_List.txt", vbHide)

            MessageBox.Show(objFolderDlg.SelectedPath)
        End If
    End Sub

Posted 19-Mar-14 15:43pm

abroehl

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Mar-14 10:28am

There is no such thing as "DOS command".
—SA

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Solution 3

Thanks for all of the info. I will go through them all and see what i can do to solve this problem.

Posted 20-Mar-14 12:24pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-20T04:29:00

Solution 2

There is no such thing as "DOS command". Please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.start%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

Probably, this is all you need.

—SA

Posted 20-Mar-14 4:29am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Marcin Kozub · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-20T03:27:00

You don't have to use shell commands. .NET Framework has namespace System.IO which contains all classes to get informations about files, folders etc.

Start here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/System.IO%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^]

This will help you to get list of dirs and files for specified path:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/system.io.directory%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^]

This will help you to save informations to file:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/system.io.streamwriter%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^]

And finally, to get user profile directory:
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.UserProfile)

Hope it helps you :)