[Help] Deleting files permanently[Solved]

[nathanael890]

I was making my application called "Bin Manager" as it can delete files in the current list.
It was almost perfect but I had just noticed that I thought of deleting them permanently without using the recycle bin ( or even to make empty it )

Could anyone can help me? I just need a basic one.

Please mark my thread as solved. thank you.

[NextGen1]

Hmmmmmm

What are you using , because....

 Try
        File.Delete("C:\File.Extension")
Catch ex As Exception
' Do nothing 
' Or display an error such as 
    msgbox (ex.tostring)
'or msgbox("File Not Found"
End Try

Should delete a file without sending it to recycling bin

[Jason]

First results on google for "Empty the Recycle Bin VB.NET"

Reference:
Empty Recycle bin - VB.NET code - Visual Basic .NET answers

Relevant code:

Private Declare Function SHEmptyRecycleBin Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "SHEmptyRecycleBinA" (ByVal hWnd As Int32, ByVal pszRootPath As String, ByVal dwFlags As Int32) As Int32
Private Declare Function SHUpdateRecycleBinIcon Lib "shell32.dll" () As Int32

Private Const SHERB_NOCONFIRMATION = &H1
Private Const SHERB_NOPROGRESSUI = &H2
Private Const SHERB_NOSOUND = &H4

#Region "Empty Recycle Bin (SUB)"

Private Sub EmptyRecycleBin()
SHEmptyRecycleBin(Me.Handle.ToInt32, vbNullString, SHERB_NOCONFIRMATION + SHERB_NOSOUND)
SHUpdateRecycleBinIcon()
End Sub

#End Region

Offtopic, it appears my syntax highlighter is missing the "Region" Keyword. Bugger.

[nathanael890]

Hmmmmmm

What are you using , because....

 Try
        File.Delete("C:\File.Extension")
Catch ex As Exception
' Do nothing 
' Or display an error such as 
    msgbox (ex.tostring)
'or msgbox("File Not Found"
End Try

Should delete a file without sending it to recycling bin

I was recently using [ Kill("<<File>>") ] to delete files.
My friends uses some aglorithms to delete the files away but I didn't need that anyway. Thank you.

Oh. about the message I have sent to you NextGen.. I have no received messages yet.. it was about text encrypting..

[NextGen1]

@ Jason, He doesn't want to empty, but avoid the recycling bin.

@ Message
Resend message, It may have been overlooked.

[freedompeace]

You can use the System.IO.File.Delete function..


Note that none of the above suggestions (including mine) will actually delete the data. All it does is remove the index, and the data will remain there (and can be recovered) until it is overwritten by new data.

[Jason]

Hey Rich:

( or even to make empty it )

[NextGen1]

@ Freedom Piece, that's what I said, I like you, but you don't know much about the .net framework do you?

File.delete as mentioned in my code above is System.IO.File.Delete

[Blubb1337]

Richard, you tend to not read the whole first post

[NextGen1]

Yeah Yeah, but a working solution is a working solution regardless, Plus, the (assumed) practical solution would be to bypass the recycling bin altogether, why make a one step process two steps when the outcome is the same?