I have this WPF app and I want to have there function of getting a directory path from the user. I would like to use some folder browser dialog but I don't want to implement it from System.Windows.Forms
or use some huge script inside. Is there some path getting dialog in WPF already implemented?
I have read answers to similar questions here but it was full of System.Windows.Forms..
I haven't found anything like that in the Toolbox and I'm starting with WPF so I could use some help.
Thank you in advance :]
See my answer to Select folder dialog WPF. Basically the Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5 Cookbook recommends that you use the Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework if you need a folder browser.
we use Ookii Dialogs in our projects. They have the windows-look and feel and the typical options for filtering etc.
There are no standard native WPF dialogs for what you are looking for, simply because the System.Windows.Forms dialogs are nothing more than wrappers to the system ones. So creating a WPF wrapper makes no sense and will only add to the confusion.
The Ookii Dialogs for WPF library has a VistaFolderBrowserDialog
class that provides a complete implementation of a folder browser dialog for WPF.
https://github.com/augustoproiete/ookii-dialogs-wpf
There's also a version compatible with Windows Forms apps