I have a method that will iterate through a folder and all of its subfolders and get a list of the file paths However I could only figure out how to create it and add the files to a public List but not how to return the list Here s the method public List lt String gt files new List lt String gt private void DirSearch string sDir try foreach string f in Directory GetFiles sDir files Add f foreach string d in Directory GetDirectories sDir DirSearch d catch System Exception excpt MessageBox Show excpt Message So i just call DirSearch at some point in my code and it fills the list with the paths but I want to be able to use it multiple times to create different lists with different directories etc

Method to get all files within folder and subfolders that will return a list

You can use Directory.GetFiles to replace your method.

 Directory.GetFiles(dirPath, "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories)

~ Answered on 2013-01-13 16:40:00