How to store values persistenly of files in a directory?

Question

I\'m developing a Windows application in VS2005 using C#. In my project, I generate dlls and store them in a directory. The dlls will be named as TestAssembly1, TestAssembly

Answer 1

Instead of lots of checking if a file already exist you can get a list of all assemblies, extract their ID's and return the highest ID + 1:

int nextId = GetNextIdFromFileNames(
               "pathToAssemblies", 
               "TestAssembly*.dll", 
               @"TestAssembly(\d+)\.dll");

[...]

public int GetNextIdFromFileNames(string path, string filePattern, string regexPattern)
{
    // get all the file names
    string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path, filePattern, SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);

    // extract the ID from every file, get the highest ID and return it + 1
    return ExtractIdsFromFileList(files, regexPattern)
           .Max() + 1;
}

private IEnumerable ExtractIdsFromFileList(string[] files, string regexPattern)
{
    Regex regex = new Regex(regexPattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

    foreach (string file in files)
    {
        Match match = regex.Match(file);
        if (match.Success)
        {
            int value;
            if (int.TryParse(match.Groups[1].Value, out value))
            {
                yield return value;
            }
        }
    }
}