Renaming a file

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Richard L Rosenheim - 27 Oct 2004 07:06 GMT

Correct me if I'm wrong...

It appears that out of the 1800+ classes in the .Net framework, there isn't
a file rename method (discounting the rename function in the vb namespace).
And that the solution is to move the file to the same directory with a
different destination name.

Does that correctly summarize it?

Richard

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CT - 27 Oct 2004 07:44 GMT

Richard,

I've always done it like that, which is pretty straightforward. However, if
anyone knows a better/different way...

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Shankara Narayanan - 27 Oct 2004 07:54 GMT

Yes -
Afraid so. You have to move the file for renaming. I have also
faced same prob.
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Nishith Pathak - 27 Oct 2004 10:35 GMT

Dear all,

There is Rename function available in Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace and is
only available to VB.Net and not to other language like C#. seems strange
when i do it. But the best universal and standard solution to rename the file
is to use the File.Move method but in case if you r working on VB.NET, you
got the rename function to rename your files.

Nishith

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] - 27 Oct 2004 11:24 GMT

> There is Rename function available in Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace and is
> only available to VB.Net and not to other language like C#.

No, you can use the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace from C#. The Rename
method is a static one in the FileSystem class.

I can't see that it's likely to have a significantly different effect
to using File.Move though.

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Chris Dunaway - 27 Oct 2004 15:13 GMT

> Yes -
> Afraid so. You have to move the file for renaming. I have also
> faced same prob.

Why is that a problem? It works as intended. When calling the Move method
to the same folder, I believe it just changes the name and does not
actually "move" anything.

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