File IO error

[falco]

Can someone explain why I am getting the following build errors?

 

No overload for method 'File' takes '1' arguments

 

'System.IO.File' does not contain a definition for 'CopyTo'

 

 

Code:

 

using System;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Collections;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Data;

using System.IO;

 

File adofile = new File("C:\\dotNET Book\\Ch8_ADO.doc");

 

adofile.CopyTo("C:\\dotNETBook\\Sample\\Ch8_Backup.doc");

[divil]

It's not working because there is no contructor on the File class, as it said. You can't just invent syntax like this. To copy a file, you use the static method of the File class:

 

System.IO.File.Copy("C:\\dotNET Book\\Ch8_ADO.doc", "C:\\dotNETBook\\Sample\\Ch8_Backup.doc");

[falco]

Once again, you da man!

 

Thank you for guiding this blind rookie through what must seem like such basic stuff.