Quicker (quickest?) way to get number of files in a directory with over 200,000 files

Question

I have some directories containing test data, typically over 200,000 small (~4k) files per directory.

I am using the following C# code to get the number of files in a di

Answer 1

You could use System.Management and WMI's class "cim_datafile", just run the following query in WMI, you can also use Linq to Wmi but i didn't try it

select * from cim_datafile where drive='c:' and path='\\SomeDirectory\\' 

I guess it will work faster