Openfiledialog1.showdialog = windows.forms.dialogresult.ok

If you want to give the user the ability to select a folder instead of a file, use FolderBrowserDialog instead. OpenRead Method allow you to read as many byte as you wish.

I use the IDE, i just do not understand the IDE yet, so I just noticed from your code that openfiledialog1 had the one after it and was the result of the openfiledialog, NOT the openfiledialong. Now i just need to copy the old program from Excel Vb into this and voala it will not work for many hours more of figuring out what changed LOL. If openFileDialog1. StreamReader openFileDialog1.

End Using. Windows Server Developer Center. Sign in. United States English. Home Learn Downloads Community. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums V. Visual Basic Express Edition. Active 4 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 4k times. I copied a OpenFileDialog from one of my other projects but it does not work on the new project.

NET Framework 4. Thomas Thomas 91 1 1 silver badge 12 12 bronze badges. Project type? Framework version? May be you are copying from a winfrom application. Go wpf way wpf-tutorial. No i checked that. It is the same application. Harsh — Thomas. Then why are you referencing windows form open. OK — Harsh. Thomas What he meant is that in WinForms, it uses the DialogResult , but in WPF, it doesn't, and requires a Boolean to check against the dialog being there, because of what WPF passes back out of the Window object you are using for your dialog.

So even though you can reference System. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. This one allows you to type in a path, even a UNC path. You can also browse for computers or printers with it. Works just like the built-in FBD, but … better. The Ookii. Dialogs package contains a managed wrapper around the new Vista-style folder browser dialog. It also degrades gracefully on older operating systems. See the part in red below. It could contain an OK button that would let us validate folder only selection.

Just guessing here, but I suspect the string is injected into the combo box edit control every time a significant change is made to the dialog. Edit: this is much easier than I thought.

It is not the standard file open dialog! When you look closely, you can also spot some differences between the contents of the dialogs. My conclusion is that Microsoft completely replaced the standard dialog in Visual Studio to give it this capability. You can subclass the file dialog and gain access to all its controls. Each has an identifier that can be used to obtain its window handle.

You can then show and hide them, get messages from them about selection changes etc. It all depends how much effort you want to take. We did ours using WTL class support and customized the file dialog to include a custom places bar and plug-in COM views.

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