[.NET] How to create a shared folder in C#

To cut a not so long story even shorter, this can be done with the following snippet: 

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using System.IO;

using System.Management;

//...

//First create your directory

DirectoryInfo myDir = new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\shared");

myDir.Create();

//...

// Create an instance of ManagementClass

ManagementClass managementClass = new ManagementClass("Win32_Share");

// ManagementBaseObjects reference for in and out parameters

ManagementBaseObject inParams;

ManagementBaseObject outParams;

inParams = managementClass.GetMethodParameters("Create");

// Set input parameters

inParams["Description"] = "Shared directory";

inParams["Name"] = "shared";//this needs to match with folder name!

inParams["Path"] = @"C:\shared";

inParams["Type"] = 0x0; // Disk Drive

// InvokeMethod call on the ManagementClass object

outParams = managementClass.InvokeMethod("Create", inParams, null);

// Check outcome

if ((uint)(outParams.Properties["ReturnValue"].Value) != 0)

{

   //Unable to share directory

}

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The above solution is quite sweet and seems to work perfectly - for further details see the article where I originally found the snippet to share the directory: http://www.sarampalis.org/articles/dotnet/dotnet0002.shtml

Man - do I suck!?!