Is there a faster way than this to find all the files in a directory and all sub directories?

Question

I\'m writing a program that needs to search a directory and all its sub directories for files that have a certain extension. This is going to be used both on a local, and a

Answer 1

Try Parallel programming:

private string _fileSearchPattern;
private List _files;
private object lockThis = new object();

public List GetFileList(string fileSearchPattern, string rootFolderPath)
{
    _fileSearchPattern = fileSearchPattern;
    AddFileList(rootFolderPath);
    return _files;
}

private void AddFileList(string rootFolderPath)
{
    var files = Directory.GetFiles(rootFolderPath, _fileSearchPattern);
    lock (lockThis)
    {
        _files.AddRange(files);
    }

    var directories = Directory.GetDirectories(rootFolderPath);

    Parallel.ForEach(directories, AddFileList); // same as Parallel.ForEach(directories, directory => AddFileList(directory));
}