ASP.net + ajax + directory file reader

[fmrock]

Hey everyone,

I am new to asp.net and ajax. I have been programming for a while using classic ASP and VB.

I have a directory that has a bunch of pdf reports

The directory structure is has a year folder / month folder/ week folder

/2008/

/2008/01-2008/

/2008/01-2008/01-06-2008
/2008/01-2008/01-06-2008/Location_1.pdf
/2008/01-2008/01-06-2008/Location_2.pdf
/2008/01-2008/01-06-2008/Location_3.pdf
/2008/01-2008/01-06-2008/Location_4.pdf


And so on for each week of the month.

/2008/01-2008/01-13-2008
/2008/01-2008/01-20-2008
/2008/01-2008/01-27-2008

I would like to build a page that uses asp.net and possibly ajax, but was wondering if anyone knew of any exaples out there that could point me in the right direction.

 

[fmrock]

Maybe a set of select boxes, one for year, month, and week. The Month select would populate based on what year was selected, and so on. Once all 3 are filled out, it could populate the page with a list of links to the PDF file

 

[jmeckley]

1st you need to load the locations into a collection.
using System.IO you can use the DirectoryInfo object to get the directories and files.

from there you can build up a series of objects representing the directory (friendly name, full path, associated files, associatied directories).

this can all be done without any references to asp.net

once you have this collection you need to display it. this can be done using usercontrols and nested repeaters. this is easier than converting POCOs to a hierarchical datasource control

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[fmrock]

Thanks. I will google and see what i can find on the DirectoryInfo object.