getting directory list in creation date order

[JacquesBrits]

Hi guys I have the code to get the directory list of the xml files in an folder but the problem is that i want to get the files in the creation date order. in other words each file has got an date it was created. now i want to load all these xml files into an list array and in the creation date order. is this possible? :confused: my code sofar:

    private String\[\] GetDirectory(String XmlFilePath)
    {
        List<String> strList = new List<string>();

        FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(XmlFilePath);
        request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(Username, Password);
        request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory;
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());

        while (!(sr.EndOfStream))
        {
            strList.Add(sr.ReadLine());
        }

        sr.Close();
        sr = null;

        return strList.ToArray();
    }

[tim_gunning]

i would use something like

string fileName = "/path/to/your/file";
DateTime dt = File.GetCreationTime(fileName);

and then work with the returned date depending on how you wanted to order it. have a look at this for some pointers http://stackoverflow.com/questions/844251/how-to-sort-arraylist-of-datetime-objects-in-descending-order[^]