Dealing with long file names in VB.NET
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A class using Win32 Unicode calls to handle file names/paths longer than 254.
Introduction
This article explains using Win32 Unicode calls to handle long file names and paths.
Using the code
This code is basically untested. The FileEnumerator.vb class is straight from Microsoft. Win32Delcares.vb from Microsoft with the declarations changed to Unicode. ioWin32 has: CopyFile_Win32, DeleteFile_Win32, CreateDir_Win32, CopyDir_Win32, GetFilesIncludeSubDirs_Win32, GetDirsIncludeSubDirs_Win32, GetDirs_Win32, GetFiles_Win32, FileExists_Win32, DirExists_Win32, DeleteDir_Win32.
Dim sFiles() As String = IOWin32.UnicodeWin32.Functions.GetFiles_Win32("C:\temp\")
instead of
dim sFiles() as string = system.io.directory.getfiles("C:\temp\")