>What is get_Length() ? (I'ts certainly not a static method of System.IO.FileInfo)
>IAC this works :

System.IO.FileInfo fi = new   System.IO.FileInfo("d:\\tmp\\longfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilenamelongfilename.txt");
>
>long i = fi.Length;

Length of the file name is 196.....

A reference from fileinfo will work. The problem is with the DirectoryInfo class. This ones uses a get_Length function when we call the GetFiles() method.