Determine if a File Exists Within a Given Directory SubTree

Category:

Files and Directories

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Intelligent Solutions Inc.

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This snippet shows you how to use the SearchTreeForFile API function to determine if a file exists within a specified drive/directory or any child subdirectories. See comments within code for usage and example.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
Option Explicit Private Declare Function SearchTreeForFile Lib "imagehlp.dll" _ (ByVal sRootPath As String, ByVal InputPathName As String, _ ByVal OutputPathBuffer As String) As Boolean

Code: