C# Program to just update the timestamps of a list of file

Hi All,

Here is the program to set the create time of a set of files, using C#.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Collections;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml;

namespace TouchFile

{

    class mainPgm

    {

        static Hashtable oHTSettings;

        static Hashtable oHTFileList;

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            //Check the input parameter.

            Init();

            if (args.Length ==1)

            {

                ParseXML(args[0]);

                //Do the actual "touch" here.

                TouchMe();

            }

        }

        private static void TouchMe()

        {

            try

            {

                string strDirectory="";

                string strTmpFile="";

                int i;

               

                strDirectory = oHTSettings["direcotry"].ToString();

                if (!strDirectory.EndsWith("\\"))

                {

                    strDirectory += "\\";

                }

               

                for (i = 0; i < oHTFileList.Count; i++)

                {

                    strTmpFile = strDirectory + oHTFileList[(i + 1).ToString()].ToString();

                    if (System.IO.File.Exists(strTmpFile))

                    {

                        System.IO.File.SetCreationTime(strTmpFile, DateTime.Now);

                        System.IO.File.SetLastWriteTime(strTmpFile, DateTime.Now);

                    }

                    else

                    {

                        //do something

                    }

                }

            }

            catch (Exception exp)

            {

                Console.WriteLine(exp.ToString());

            }

        }

        private static void Init()

        {

            //Do initialization stuff here.

            oHTFileList = new Hashtable();

            oHTSettings = new Hashtable();

        }

        private static void ParseXML(string strFilePath)

        {

            try

            {

                XmlDocument oXMLDoc = new XmlDocument();

                XmlNodeList oXMLNodes;

                int i=1;

                //XmlNode oSingleNode;

                if (System.IO.File.Exists(strFilePath))

                {

                    oXMLDoc.Load(strFilePath);

                    oXMLNodes = oXMLDoc.SelectNodes("/settings/configuration")[0].ChildNodes;

                    if (oXMLNodes != null)

                    {

                        foreach (XmlNode oSingleNode in oXMLNodes)

                        {

                            oHTSettings.Add(oSingleNode.Name, oSingleNode.InnerText);

                        }

                    }

                    oXMLNodes = oXMLDoc.SelectNodes("/settings/fileList")[0].ChildNodes;

                    if (oXMLNodes != null)

                    {

                        foreach (XmlNode oSingleNode in oXMLNodes)

                        {

                            oHTFileList.Add(i++.ToString(), oSingleNode.InnerText);

                        }

                    }

                }

            }

            catch (Exception expException)

            {

                System.Console.Write(expException.ToString());

            }

        }

    }

}

Sample XML Config file:

<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<settings>

<configuration>

  <direcotry>c:\Temp</direcotry>

</configuration>

<fileList>

  <file>File1</file>

  <file>File2</file>

</fileList>

</settings>