Empty recycle bin

Description :

We can empty the recycle bin by using the bellow coding

Step 1

Following Namespace used


using System.Runtime.InteropServices;



Step 2

Create the enum


enum RecycleFlags : uint
{
SHERB_NOCONFIRMATION = 0x00000001,
SHERB_NOPROGRESSUI = 0x00000002,
SHERB_NOSOUND = 0x00000004
}



Step 3

Dll import


[DllImport("Shell32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
static extern uint SHEmptyRecycleBin
(IntPtr hwnd,
string pszRootPath,
RecycleFlags dwFlags);



Step 4

Following is the code for empty the recyclebin


public static void Main()
{
uint MyResult = SHEmptyRecycleBin (IntPtr.Zero, null, 0);
Console.WriteLine ("Out put: {0}", MyResult);
}




Regard

Prateek