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Extending The Browse For Folder Dialog Class
This code is simpily extending the Browse For Folder Dialog class that was on posted on PSC by Chris Andersen. After using his code, I was interested in knowing if there was any additional options available aside from just being able to set the title. I consulted the MSDN and this is what I came up with.
The above screen shot is showing the Browse For Folder dialog with StartLocation set to "MyDocuments" and Style set to "BrowseForEverything"
.StartLocation
The directory in which the browse dialog will start at. (duh) I haven't found a way to specifiy a certain path, like C:\PSC or something of that nature, but there are a number of members that we can use. They are:
- Desktop
- Favorites
- MyComputer
- MyDocuments
- MyPictures
- NetAndDialUpConnections
- NetworkNeighborhood
- Printers
- Recent
- SendTo
- StartMenu
- Templates
.Style
They style of the browse dialog. We have a few different options to choose from.
- BrowseForComputer
- BrowseForEverything
- BrowseForPrinter
- RestrictToDomain
- RestrictToFilesystem
- RestrictToSubfolders
- ShowTextBox
The Code
Here's an example of how to use the above methods in the Browse For Folder dialog.
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Forms.Design;
public class BrowseForFolder : FolderNameEditor
{
FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser bDialog;
public BrowseForFolder()
{
bDialog = new FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser();
}
public string browseDialog(string sTitle)
{
bDialog.Description = sTitle;
bDialog.StartLocation = FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowserFolder.MyComputer;
bDialog.Style = FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowserStyles.RestrictToDomain;
bDialog.ShowDialog();
return bDialog.DirectoryPath;
}
~BrowseForFolder()
{
bDialog.Dispose();
}
}
Useage:
To use this class, make sure you add a reference to System.Design.DLL. Call the class like so:
BrowseForFolder myDialog = new BrowseForFolder();
MessageBox.Show(myDialog.browseDialog("Dialog Title Goes Here");
It's pretty simple. Thanks again to Chris Anderson for the original code. | |
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5/15/2002 10:07:35 AM:Chris Andersen
Hey cool. I did something useful for a
change. :p
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5/16/2002 4:14:21 AM:D. de Haas
Very usefull...:-)
5 from me to you
both.
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7/26/2002 3:17:03 AM:Eirik
Very usefull code, but it has one minor
problem. It has no ability if the user
pressed [OK] or [Cancel].
Other than
that it's very clean and usefull.
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11/8/2002 10:01:18 PM:
When I tried this it did not show the
tree that shows the folders. It did
show the buttons and the text box
though. Any suggestions?
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11/18/2002 9:07:56 PM:
I found that the code works great, it
did exactly what I needed it to. It
then wouldn't display the folders box
anymore. I played around with it and
found that icons on the form were
causing the problem. Either using an
imagelist or image property of a
control. Haven't figured out how to
get around that though.
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12/10/2002 6:09:50 PM:
I was trying to use your code example
for browsing for computers. It seems I
had to modify the
FolderNameEditor.privateOptions to
"BrowseForComputer" before it would
give me the correct dialog. As well, I
could not get it to return me the name
of the computer just selected.
"DirectoryPath" is always
empty.
Also MSDN says not to invoke
FolderNameEditor class directly in your
code. Don't quite understand that
warning since you obviously used it.
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2/24/2003 3:14:17 PM:nfs
Nice coding.
Vote of Excellent from
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3/12/2003 7:25:03 AM:
Hi,
You didn't have to look at MSDN
for this, the intellisense shows all
properties that you can use. Anyway,
just a remark, the showdialog method
returns a dialogresult value so you can
determine if the user pressed OK or
cancel.
Use dlgResult =
bDialog.Showdialog()
I also found that
you can only create a new class and
inherit from the FolderNameEditor
class. You can't use this directly from
within a form. (correct me if i'm
wrong, please)
Greetings,
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3/24/2003 10:49:56 AM:
Browse for computer did not return my
computer name. please help
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3/24/2003 10:51:07 AM:
browse for computer does not return the
computer name
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