On Windows is there an interface for Copying Folders?

Question

I want to copy folder A and paste to desktop.

I am currently using C++ so preferably an OO interface if available.

Answer 1

Starting with Visual Studio 2015 you can use std::filesystem::copy which is even platform independent since it is available in implementations supporting >= C++17.

#include 
#include  // C++-standard filesystem header file in VS15, VS17.
#include 
namespace fs = std::experimental::filesystem; // experimental for VS15, VS17.

/*! Copies all contents of path/to/source/directory to path/to/target/directory.
*/
int main()
{
    fs::path source = "path/to/source/directory";
    fs::path targetParent = "path/to/target";
    auto target = targetParent / source.filename(); // source.filename() returns "directory".

    try // If you want to avoid exception handling then use the error code overload of the following functions.
    {
        fs::create_directories(target); // Recursively create target directory if not existing.
        fs::copy(source, target, fs::copy_options::recursive);
    }
    catch (std::exception& e) // Not using fs::filesystem_error since std::bad_alloc can throw too.
    {
        std::cout << e.what();
    }
}

Change the behaviour of fs::copy with std::filesystem::copy_options. I've used std::filesystem::path::filename to retrieve the source directory name without having to type it manually.