Create a File Picker That Defaults to The Desktop (C#)

[csharp]
OpenFileDialog fd = new OpenFileDialog();

fd.InitialDirectory = Path.GetFullPath(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop));

fd.ShowDialog();

MessageBox.Show(fd.FileName); // show the selected File path
[/csharp]

7-Zip Command Lines (Windows)

To extract all .zip files in the specified directory and make a new folder in the current directory for the extract that has the same name as the .zip file:

• D:Unzipped>”c:Program Files7-Zip7z.exe” x d:Zips*.zip -o*

Archive a folder

• “C:Program Files7-Zip7z” a -tzip D:ZipsData_20100801.zip D:OutputData_20100801

Sequentially run all VB Script (.vbs) files in a directory

Create a new C# Console Application in Visual Studio and compile the code.  Copy the compiled .exe file to the directory containing the .vbs scripts you want to run in sequence.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.IO;

using System.Diagnostics;

/*————————————————————————–

* Developer: Tom Gee

* Date: April 6, 2010

* Description: This .exe file will run every .VBS file in the same directory

*              as the .exe, but will wait for the current .VBS script to end

*              before beginning the next.

————————————————————————–*/

namespace RunAllVBSinDirectory

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

try

{

string[] scripts = Directory.GetFiles(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), “*.vbs”);

int i = 0;

foreach (string script in scripts)

{

i++;

Console.WriteLine(“Running: ” + script);

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

{

exeProcess.WaitForExit();

exeProcess.Close();

exeProcess.Dispose();

}

}

Console.WriteLine(“Ran all ” + i + ” script files in current directory (” + Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + “)“);

Console.ReadLine();

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

Console.WriteLine(“ERROR! ” + ex.Message + Environment.NewLine + “Inner Exception: ” + ex.InnerException + Environment.NewLine + “Stack Trace: ” + ex.StackTrace);

Console.ReadLine();

}

}

}

}