When you catch the exception you should output its message, and not "blabla..is not a valid image file". That way you'll be able to identify what's going wrong.

I identified the debugger error....apart from that it is out of my league

but i got it working and it does what i want so i'll quit while im ahead i think

here is a link to the code for future reference....or for anyone thats interested.


http://files.filefront.com/LoginSort.../fileinfo.html

Just for the gallery, see first part of code in my previous post:


string format = "MM.dd.yyyy HH:mm:ss";
lines.Sort(new Comparison<string>(delegate(string a, string b)
{
string dateA = Regex.Match(a, "\\[(.+)\\]").Groups[1].Value;
string dateB = Regex.Match(b, "\\[(.+)\\]").Groups[1].Value;

return (DateTime.Compare(DateTime.ParseExact(dateA, format, null),
DateTime.ParseExact(dateB, format, null)));
}));