topic Re: delete shapefile from folder in ArcObjects SDK Questions

delete shapefile from folder

Anonymous User — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:52:25 GMT

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.

Re: delete shapefile from folder

Anonymous User — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:05:33 GMT

Original User: helenchu

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

Re: delete shapefile from folder

JORGELAGOS2 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:50:34 GMT

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

Could you please tell me how?

Thanks

Jorge

Re: delete shapefile from folder

Anonymous User — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:41:27 GMT

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

This is not a good way to delete a spatial dataset

DuncanHornby — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:23:34 GMT

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