18.2 Copying, moving, and deleting directories

For deleting and moving a directory and its contents, both Directory and DirectoryInfo contain the following methods shown in Table 18.4.

Table 18.4. Methods to use for performing common directory operations

Function	System.IO.DirectoryInfo	System.IO.Directory
Copying a directory	No method	No method
Moving a directory	MoveTo (string destination_path)	Move (string source_path, string destination_path)
Deleting a directory	Delete ()	Delete (string path )

Note that there is no method for copying a whole directory and its contents. You will have to perform manual copying of each file within.