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Winphone8.1 development: can I get a list of al files stored in the Assets folder?

I am running win8.1 and VS2013 SP3 trying to create a Windows phone app that should get all the document names and paths (for later reference) from the Assets folder. I added a bunch of text documents to the Assets folder and set the build to content and always copied.

Is it possible to get a list of all files (or filenames) in the assets folder? I can't seem to find a way to do this.

What I can do is link to a specific file, but what I would like to do is list all the filenames / paths in the Assets folder and show the details of those files in a specific view ...

I tried the following:

var package = Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation;

var assetsFolder = await package.GetFolderAsync("Assets");

foreach (var file in await assetsFolder.GetFilesAsync())
{
    _documents.Add(new Document() { Category = section, Title = file.Name, Uri = file.Path });
}

Does this code hang at the foreach line ...?

I would really appreciate some guidance or guidance on this matter.

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Perhaps that's what you call him.

Here are mine with screenshots.

I only call this after the whole page has loaded.

private void Page_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    ReadAssetFolder();
}

public async void ReadAssetFolder()
{
    var package = Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation;
    var assetsFolder = await package.GetFolderAsync("Assets");
    foreach (var file in await assetsFolder.GetFilesAsync())
    {
        int debug_var = 1;
    }

}

Screenshot of when the debugger hits my breakpoint:

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Screenshot of my assets folder

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Finally, all my files have the following properties

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Hope it helps.

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