C# to Copy Files/Folders Fast

Using the XCOPY command you can copy files and folders from one machine to another machine.

Here I will show you how we can execute XCOPY using C # but before showing that piece of code I would prefer to provide some explanations of XCOPY. So, here you go:

1. In computing, Xcopy is a command used in PC DOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and related operating systems for copying multiple files or entire directory trees from one directory to another and for copying files across a network. Xcopy stands for extended copy, and was created as a more functional file copying utility than the copy command found in these operating systems.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcopy

To get more details about XCOPY you can visit the following link.

Xcopy is more powerful than a simple copy function in .Net like-: Xcopy does a lot of things (buffering, error check, etc.) that are not easy to code by yourself, but you can always start a new process with Xcopy in the command line.

Here is the Code for the same:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;

namespace Xcopy
{
    /// 

    /// Use This class to Perform Xcopy
    /// 
    internal class Program
    {
        /// 

        /// This is your Main
        /// 
        /// 
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Provide the Source location
            string sourceLoc = @"D:\BackUpFile\";

            //Provide your Destination Location
            string destinationLoc = System.Environment.CurrentDirectory.Remove(System.Environment.CurrentDirectory.IndexOf("bin")) + "Source\\";

            string FolderPath = "CopiedFiles";

            if (!(Directory.Exists(destinationLoc + @"\" + FolderPath)))

                Directory.CreateDirectory(destinationLoc + @"\" + FolderPath);

            //Call a method to perform Xcopy

            ProcessXcopy(sourceLoc, destinationLoc + @"\" + FolderPath);

            Console.WriteLine("we are done with the xcopy");
        }

        /// 


        /// Method to Perform Xcopy to copy files/folders from Source machine to Target Machine

        /// 

        /// 

        /// 

        private static void ProcessXcopy(string SolutionDirectory, string TargetDirectory)

        {
            // Use ProcessStartInfo class

            ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();

            startInfo.CreateNoWindow = false;

            startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;

            //Give the name as Xcopy

            startInfo.FileName = "xcopy";

            //make the window Hidden

            startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;

            //Send the Source and destination as Arguments to the process

            startInfo.Arguments = "\"" + SolutionDirectory + "\"" + " " + "\"" + TargetDirectory + "\"" + @" /e /y /I";

            try

            {
                // Start the process with the info we specified.

                // Call WaitForExit and then the using statement will close.

                using (Process exeProcess = Process.Start(startInfo))

                {
                    exeProcess.WaitForExit();
                }
            }
            catch (Exception exp)

            {
                throw exp;
            }
        }
    }
}