FileAttributes Class

For a list of all members of this type, see FileAttributes Members.

Description

Represents attribute criteria used for file searching.

Thread Safety

This class is STA based and therefore safe for multithreaded access as long as the creating process continues to process its message loop.

Remarks

This class controls search criteria regarding the attributes of files. The value of each attribute criteria is defined by the AttributeState Enumeration.

If no attribute searching is required then the Clear method should be used to clear all attributes (the default state).

Example

[Visual Basic]

 engineSearch = New SearchEngineClass

 engineSearch.SearchCriteria.FileName         = "*.txt"

 engineSearch.SearchCriteria.ContainingText   = "search"

 engineSearch.SearchCriteria.LookIn           = "c:\search folder"

 ' To specify that no ReadOnly files should be found turn the attribute off.

 engineSearch.SearchCriteria.FileAttributes.Clear()

 engineSearch.SearchCriteria.FileAttributes.ReadOnly = AttributeState.Off

 Dim listResult As SearchResultItemList = engineSearch.Start( False )