Hi Folks Thanks to djones7936 on

[Kenny100]

Hi Folks

Thanks to djones7936 on this forum I've got a nice sub routine that copies all of the files and subdirectories within a directory to another directory. The thing is, I'm having a bit of trouble implementing the subroutine. I'm a bit new to C# so I've been reading like mad but I still can't see where I'm going wrong:

using System;

public class FileCopier
{
public static void Main()
{
CopyAllFiles("C:\\test\\test1A", "C:\\test\\test2A", true);
}

private void CopyAllFiles(string strSourceDirectory, string strDestinationDirectory, bool bCheckSubdir)
{
// Code contained here thanks to djone7936
}
}

When I try to call the subroutine like this I get the following error:

An object reference is required for the nonstatic field, method, or property 'FileCopier.CopyAllFiles(string, string, bool)'

What glaring error have I made here?!

Cheers,
Kenny.

 

[chiph]

You're going from a static method (Main) to a instance method (CopyAllFiles), and instance methods require an object instance.

Move your file copy routine into another class named KFile. In your Main, you'd then do something like:

KFile MyKFile = new KFile();   // create instance

MyKFile.CopyAllFiles("c:\foo", "c:\bar");

Chip H.