Overview

SysUtils is contained in the MFiles.VAF.Common namespace and provides common utility methods for system operations.

Temporary file management

There are a number of methods available to interact with temporary files:

• CreateTempFolder - creates a new randomly-named temporary folder inside the system temporary path.
• DeleteFromDisk - deletes a file or folder from disk. If the provided path is a folder, all files and sub-folders are also deleted.
• GetTempFileName - creates a temporary file name with the given extension.

Event log reporting

There are a number of methods available to make interacting with the event log simpler:

• ReportToEventLog - reports the supplied message to the event log.
• ReportInfoToEventLog - reports the supplied message to the event log as an informational message.
• ReportWarningToEventLog - reports the supplied message to the event log as a warning.
• ReportErrorToEventLog - reports the supplied message to the event log as an error.
• ReportErrorMessageToEventLog - reports the exception to the Windows Event Log, with a supplied prefix message.