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Are there any helper classes to deal with file paths or to see whether a file exists.

I'm trying to create a folder/file structure inside Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.current.localFolder.

Let's say I want to create a file like .\foo\bar\example.txt - createFileAsync doesn't seem to work if the folder doesn't exists so I need to create foo and bar but createFolderAsync also doesn't seem to support creating of nested folders and I don't even know how to get to foo\bar efficiently without string manipulation since there doesn't seem to be an equivalent to .NET Frameworks System.IO.Path class.

How can I create this file/folder structure effectively?

Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:07 AM

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You need to create the folders one by one via WinRT API.

          Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.current.localFolder.createFolderAsync("foo", Windows.Storage.CreationCollisionOption.replaceExisting)
                .then(function (f) {
                    return f.createFolderAsync("bar", Windows.Storage.CreationCollisionOption.replaceExisting);
                }).then(function (f) {
                    return f.createFileAsync("file.dat");
                });

Or you could wrap an own WinRT helper class to do this function, then you could use it in JS.

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Marked as answer by Patrick Klug Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:59 PM

Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:18 AM

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