Managing work folder within Windows 8 App ?

Question

Hi all,

Does anyone know if it's possible to manage files and folders within a work folder in a Windows 8 app ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use the Windows.Storage.StorageFolder.CreateFolderAsync and Windows.Storage.StorageFolder.CreateFileAsync to create sub-folders and files in the local folder respectively: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn531045.aspx.

            Windows.Storage.StorageFolder localFolder = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;
            await localFolder.CreateFolderAsync("subfolder");

            Windows.Storage.StorageFolder subFolder = await localFolder.GetFolderAsync("subfolder");
            await subFolder.CreateFileAsync("text1.txt");

The StorageFolder class also has a DeleteAsync method that removes the folder and you can delete a file by first calling the  Windows.Storage.StorageFolder.GetFileAsync to get a Windows.Storage.StorageFile that represents the file and remove it using the DeleteAsync() method:

            Windows.Storage.StorageFile file = await subFolder.GetFileAsync("text1.txt");
           await file.DeleteAsync();

Answer 2

Thanks for the reply !

Are you sure that it's working with this implementation ?

Because in work folders, files can be encrypted by the organisation (more info here).

Don't know if there is any API that encrypt/decrypt files automaticaly with the user credentials or certificate.

Thanks !

Answer 3

Found a solution : more info here

Using  FileRevocationManager APIs should manage security for company files !

Thanks !