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How do you configure an OpenFileDIalog to select folders?
I'm using C# and I want to completely avoid SelectFolderDialog to select a folder. Instead, I want to use something closer to a OpenFileDialog just to select a folder.
For a more visual example, I'm looking for something close (if not exactly) like the following: http://i44.tinypic.com/x38tx1.png
Any ideas?
The folder selection dialog of Windows Vista looks quite similar to what you want. Unfortunately, .NET's FolderBrowserDialog
shows the old Windows-XP-like dialog, which you want to avoid.
To access this Vista-style dialog, you can either
- use some third-party .NET library (e.g. Ookii.Dialogs),
- use the relevant Windows API calls or
use the Windows API Code Pack:
using Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Dialogs;
...
var dialog = new CommonOpenFileDialog();
dialog.IsFolderPicker = true;
CommonFileDialogResult result = dialog.ShowDialog();
Note that this dialog is not available on operating systems older than Windows Vista, so be sure to check CommonFileDialog.IsPlatformSupported
first.