Recent Files - Display in VB.NET

Submitted by donbermoy on Friday, May 8, 2015 - 22:42.

Today, I will teach you how to create a recent files to be displayed in the ListView in VB.NET. Now, let's start this tutorial! 1. Let's start with creating a Windows Form Application for this tutorial by following the following steps in Microsoft Visual Studio: Go to File, click New Project, and choose Windows Application. 2. Next, add one listview named listViewrecentfiles with three columns namely Item name, Date Created, and Name of the file, and one button also named button1checkrecent. Insert ImageList with some images that you wanted to use. You must design your interface like this: output

3. Now, we will do the coding. We will import the following libraries below to access the component model and diagnostics.

Imports System.IO, System.Diagnostics, System.ComponentModel

Then we will find the recent folder path. Use the code below:

 Dim RecentFolderPath As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Recent)

For our button, put this code below:

    Private Sub button1checkrecent_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles button1checkrecent.Click
        listViewrecentfiles.Items.Clear()
        Dim lstitem As New ListViewItem()
        imageList1.Images.Clear()
        For Each RecentFile1 In Directory.GetFiles(RecentFolderPath)
            imageList1.Images.Add(RecentFile1, Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(RecentFile1))
            'add file and its icon
            lstitem = listViewrecentfiles.Items.Add(RecentFile1, RecentFile1)
            'add created date
            lstitem.SubItems.Add(New FileInfo(RecentFile1).CreationTime.ToLongDateString())
            'add only name without extension
            lstitem.SubItems.Add(Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(RecentFile1))
        Next
    End Sub

Output:

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