Winphone8.1 development: Can I get a List of al files stored within the Assets folder?

Question

I am running win8.1 , and VS2013 SP3, trying to create a windows phone app which should retrieve all the document names and paths (for later reference) from the 'Assets' folder. I added a bunch of word documents in the Assets folder and set the build to content, and copy to always.

Is it possible to get a list of all files (or file names) in the assets folder? I can't seem to find the way to do it.

What I can do is reference a specific file, but what I would like to do, is list out all the file names/paths within the Assets folder and show the details of these files in a specific view...

I tried the following:

var package = Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation;

var assetsFolder = await package.GetFolderAsync("Assets");

foreach (var file in await assetsFolder.GetFilesAsync())
{
    _documents.Add(new Document() { Category = section, Title = file.Name, Uri = file.Path });
}

This code freezes on the foreach line...?

I would very much appreciate some guidance or references in this matter.

Answer 1

Maybe it's the way you're calling it.

Here's mine with screenshots.

I only call it once the whole page has loaded.

private void Page_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    ReadAssetFolder();
}

public async void ReadAssetFolder()
{
    var package = Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation;
    var assetsFolder = await package.GetFolderAsync("Assets");
    foreach (var file in await assetsFolder.GetFilesAsync())
    {
        int debug_var = 1;
    }

}

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Screenshot of when the debugger hits my breakpoint:

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Screenshot of my Asset folder

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Finally all my files have these Properties

Hope that helps you.