Is there an async version of DirectoryInfo.GetFiles / Directory.GetDirectories in dotNet?

Question

Is there an asynchronous version of DirectoryInfo.GetFiles / Directory.GetDirectories in dotNet? I\'d like to use them in an F# async block, and it\'d be nice to have a ver

Answer 1

I've used several times this approach to get Async objects from functions/procedures, and it always worked great:

let AsyncGetDirectories path = 
    let fn = new Func<_, _>(System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories)
    Async.BuildPrimitive(path, fn.BeginInvoke, fn.EndInvoke)