Directory.Delete does not delete individual files within the directory structure. - CSharp File IO

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Description

Directory.Delete does not delete individual files within the directory structure.

Demo Code

// Copyright (c) Microsoft.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.  See License.txt in the project root for license information.
using System.IO;/*from www  . j a va 2  s.  com*/

public class Main{
        /// <summary>
        /// The framework's Directory.Delete does not delete individual files within the directory structure. So it could throw directory not empty exception.
        /// This helper function recurses through the directory structure, deleting individual files before deleting the directory itself.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="path">The directory path to delete</param>
        public static void DeleteRecursively(string path)
        {
            string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path);
            string[] dirs = Directory.GetDirectories(path);

            foreach (string file in files)
            {
                // If there were read-only attributes on the file, the delete would throw, so set normal permissions.
                File.SetAttributes(file, FileAttributes.Normal);
                File.Delete(file);
            }

            foreach (string dir in dirs)
            {
                DeleteRecursively(dir);
            }

            Directory.Delete(path, recursive: false);
        }
}

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