delete shapefile from folder

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Original User: helenchu

All:

How to delete a shapefile from a local folder in vb.net?  I hope I don't have to check one by one file's extension to delete it.  
Thank you for your help.

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Hornbydd · Answer

Your code example is simply deleting a file but a shapefile is composed of at least 3 files.

This is not a good way to delete a spatial dataset. You should be using the IDataset Interface or the calling the Delete Geo-processing tool.

Duncan

Anonymous User · Answer

Original User: helenchu Hi Jorge, Sorry I didn't see your question till now. Below is my function to delete shapefile just in case you still need it. Function DeleteExisting(ByVal strFileSpec As String) As Boolean DeleteExisting = True If Dir(strFileSpec) <> "" Then Debug.Print("deleting : " & strFileSpec) Dim pFSO As New Scripting.FileSystemObject pFSO.DeleteFile(strFileSpec, True) If Dir(strFileSpec) <> "" Then DeleteExisting = False Debug.Print("unable to delete: " & strFileSpec) End If End If Exit Function End Function

JORGELAGOS2 · Answer

Never mind.  I already found out how to do it.  Thanks all.

Could you please tell me how?

Thanks

Jorge