Copy file to directory

Question

Is there no .NET library call for copying a file to a directory? All library calls I found (eg File.Copy() or FileInfo.CopyTo() ) do only support copying a file to another fully specified file .

string file = "C:\Dir\ect\ory\file.txt";
string dir = "C:\Other\Directory";

File.Copy(file, dir); // does not work, requires filename

Is there a library call? If no, what's the best way to write my own utility, do I really have to use Path.GetFileName() ?

Answer 1

do I really have to use Path.GetFileName()?

Exactly:

string destination = Path.Combine(dir, Path.GetFileName(file));
Directory.CreateDirectory(dir);
File.Copy(file, destination);

Answer 2

Try this example

public class SimpleFileCopy
{
 static void Main()
 {
    string fileName = "test.txt";
    string sourcePath = @"C:\Users\Public\TestFolder";
    string targetPath =  @"C:\Users\Public\TestFolder\SubDir";        
    string sourceFile = System.IO.Path.Combine(sourcePath, fileName);
    string destFile = System.IO.Path.Combine(targetPath, fileName);      
    System.IO.File.Copy(sourceFile, destFile, true);      

}

}