Looking for people who are experienced with c# so I can pm them with my questions, decided I'll learn c# next.

should just create a on going thread and dump questions.

i dont know .net that well but C# is pretty close to C so yea.

i learned 2.0 back in high school. it's before lambdas, linq, etc. i've looked over the new features but havent really used em. just post your questions.

i'm currently working with C#.Net, I can do my best to help but no promises.

visual studio comes with a bunch of examples:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/z9hsy596(v=vs.100).aspx
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/cs2010samples

I had never used Google b4 ty for this irrelevant post.

Can anyone tell me when I wouldn't use a static function for moving renaming deleting or creating a file?

Are you referring to using methods you create? Or are you comparing System.io.File vs System.io.FileInfo?

If the former, are you talking about when to use static vs non static in general? Or what?

If the latter, then the static methods in File all perform security checks, whereas FileInfo only does the check once iirc. So if you're doing a lot of stuff with the same file, use an object. if it's just once, use the static method. java's open source which makes it easy to see what the library functions do, but in .NET you can use a reflector to see it too. i highly recommend doing it or googling + documentation

Yes I was asking about file and fileinfo, but I must not be thinking right, I am wanting a situation where I would want to use file info

suppose i want to find out the file size, when it was last modified, if it's read-only, and whether it's hidden. if it's super old, i wanna delete it. if it's mildly old, i wanna rename it. etc.

like i said, if you wanna do multiple things, use the file info.

personally i've always used file info. things like crawling the directory makes more sense to me. go through a directory, based on the metadata add them to archive, delete, then recurse.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Mar 16 2013 12:19am