If i created a button named Browse ,,If i click Browse button i have to
browse my system folders .Can any one give me the required code to browse
the specific folders
Check out the FolderBrowserDialog if you are wanting to find a folder.
If you are wanting to open a file, you can use the OpenFileDialog.
Both links provide examples of how to use the dialogs.
This MSDN link provides how to get the special system folders. And you can specify the type of special folder you want by using the appropriate enumeration. Check this link for those.
Essentially, you are going to do something like so if you want to pop up a dialog and browse to the System folder and select some files from there:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
OpenFileDialog od = new OpenFileDialog();
od.InitialDirectory = Environgment.SpecialFolder.System;
od.Multiselect = true;
if (od.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
// do stuff
// od.Filenames will hold the string[] of selected files
}
}
Assuming you want to display the results in a list named files something like:
String directory = Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.System);
String[]files = Directory.GetFiles (directory);
foreach (String file in files)
files.Add (file);
You can use a FolderBrowserDialog control and call the code there if you want to browse multiple directories.
Related
My program has a treeview which lists files from a remote computer. What I need to do is to copy these files from remote into one of my local folders. I wish that when I right click the file in treeview, a dialog box shows up for me to choose a folder, and then I click "OK" in the dialog box, my clicked file could be saved inside that folder.
Since the path of the files in remote is unc path, I'm using
File.Copy(string remote_address, string local_address)
to copy the files. As i said before I need a dialog window to choose folders. So I've tried using a FolderBowserDialog, however its SelectedPath property returns me only the path to the folder not including the folder's name! And I haven't found any property to return me the folder's name.
So my questions are:
If there's a way allowing me to use FolderBowserDialog, that I could get the full path of the location where I save my file?
If there's another method allowing me to copy or download the files from remote, like using SaveFileDialog. The problem is I don't know how to us it to do this.
The following should work:
var fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog();
if(fbd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
var localPath= Path.Combine(fbd.SelectedPath, Path.GetFilename(remote_address));
File.Copy(remote_address, localPath);
}
I'm not sure which "SavePath" property you are referring to, as FolderBrowserDialog has no such property. The property you are looking for is called SelectedPath.
FolderBrowserDialog dlg = new FolderBrowserDialog();
dlg.ShowDialog();
string local_address = dlg.SelectedPath;
After you call the FolderBrowserDialog's ShowDialog() method it will return a variable indicating what button the user pressed (ie, Ok or Cancel)
after you make sure the user had used "Ok" to indicate they want to proceed with the operation, you can access the "SelectedPath" field which will give you the full local path they selected.
You can then get the final path by calling
System.IO.Path.Combine(fbd.SelectedPath,remoteFileName);
I'm assuming that fbd is your FolderBrowserDialog instance and remoteFileName should contain just the filename part of the remote file (eg. "MyFile.txt");
If you want to separate the filename from the full remote path, use
var remoteFileName = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(remotePath);
That being said, what a user would typically expect is not a folder browser dialog, but the save file dialog.
you can initialize the save file dialog with a filename, leaving the user to select a folder and possibly change the intended file name as well if they wish.
SaveFileDialog sfd = new SaveFileDialog();
sfd.FileName = remoteFileName;
sfd.ShowDialog();
sfd.FileName // now contains the full path to the file that the user has selected
don't forget to take the result from the ShowDialog() call to make sure the user didn't cancel out of the save dailog!
I have posted - How to use OpenFileDialog to select a folder?, I couldn't find the correct answer.
So, I have changed my question.
I want to customize OpenFileDialog to select multiple folders and files. I tried to find a solution and could see some posts about it.
From the internet, I found the following project - https://github.com/scottwis/OpenFileOrFolderDialog.
However, while using this, I faced one problem. It uses the GetOpenFileName function and OPENFILENAME structure from MFC.
And OPENFILENAME has the member named "templateID".
It's the identifier for dialog template. And the sample project has the "res1.rc" file and, also have the templated dialog in it.
But I don't know How can I attach this file to my C# project?
Or is there any other perfect solution about - "How to customize OpenFileDialog to select multiple folders and files?"?
If you use the FileNames property instead of the FileName property, you get a string array of each file selected, you select multiple files using the shift key. Like so:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
OpenFileDialog x = new OpenFileDialog();
x.Multiselect = true;
x.ShowDialog();
string[] result = x.FileNames;
foreach (string y in result)
MessageBox.Show(y, "Selected Item", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
}
For files and folders you need to use the CommonOpenFileDialog included with the WinAPI, the particular class is here.
Try this:
openFileDialog.Multiselect = true;
You might not get a built in .Net control like that. Definitely the OpenFileDialog can not function as both File as well as Folder browser. You have two choices go for a third party tool like the one you found second make your own control. Surprisingly you might not find creating a very simple version of your own control very difficult.
I have posted - How to use OpenFileDialog to select a folder?, I couldn't find the correct answer.
So, I have changed my question.
I want to customize OpenFileDialog to select multiple folders and files. I tried to find a solution and could see some posts about it.
From the internet, I found the following project - https://github.com/scottwis/OpenFileOrFolderDialog.
However, while using this, I faced one problem. It uses the GetOpenFileName function and OPENFILENAME structure from MFC.
And OPENFILENAME has the member named "templateID".
It's the identifier for dialog template. And the sample project has the "res1.rc" file and, also have the templated dialog in it.
But I don't know How can I attach this file to my C# project?
Or is there any other perfect solution about - "How to customize OpenFileDialog to select multiple folders and files?"?
If you use the FileNames property instead of the FileName property, you get a string array of each file selected, you select multiple files using the shift key. Like so:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
OpenFileDialog x = new OpenFileDialog();
x.Multiselect = true;
x.ShowDialog();
string[] result = x.FileNames;
foreach (string y in result)
MessageBox.Show(y, "Selected Item", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
}
For files and folders you need to use the CommonOpenFileDialog included with the WinAPI, the particular class is here.
Try this:
openFileDialog.Multiselect = true;
You might not get a built in .Net control like that. Definitely the OpenFileDialog can not function as both File as well as Folder browser. You have two choices go for a third party tool like the one you found second make your own control. Surprisingly you might not find creating a very simple version of your own control very difficult.
I think that all i need is in the question. I placed my method in my Form.Load I can either create a folder or open a SaveFileDialog but not both at once.
If someone could help me please.
Thanks.
SaveFileDialog lets the user choose a file location that already exists. If not, they can create a folder within the dialog as #Bali suggested.
If you want the user to be able to create a new folder without using the dialog then you'll need to let the user type the path (e.g. in a textbox). Then you can check to see if the directory exist using Directory.Exist, and if not, create it using Directory.Create.
void CheckPath(string path)
{
var dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
if( !String.IsNullOrEmpty(dir) && !Directory.Exists(dir))
Directory.Create(dir);
}
Open a FolderBrowserDialog for the user with the title (Description property) set to something like "Choose an existing folder or create a new one". Do not forget to set its ShowNewFolderButton property to true.
You can also use the FolderBrowserDialog to ask the user only to select the containing ("parent") folder, and create the new folder yourself by calling Directory.CreateDirectory. In this case, ShowNewFolderButton should be false.
This would be to create a new directory
Directory.CreateDirectory(#"C:\Your File Path Here");
This would be to open a file. You can select where it opens the initial directory of the file by changing the path.
OpenFileDialog openFileDialog1 = new OpenFileDialog();
openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = (#"C:\Your starting File Path");
openFileDialog1.Filter = "All Files (*.*)|*.*";
openFileDialog1.Title = "Select a File";
What's the best way to let a user pick a subdirectory in C#?
For example, an app that lets the user organize all his saved html receipts. He most likely is going to want to be able to select a root subdirectory that the program should search for saved webpages (receipts).
Duplicate:
Browse for a directory in C#
The Folder Browser Dialog is the way to go.
If you want to set an initial folder path, you can add this to your form load event:
// Sets "My Documents" as the initial folder path
string myDocsPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
FolderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath = myDocsPath;
Check the FolderBrowserDialog class.
// ...
if (folderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
textBox1.Text = folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath;
}
FolderBrowserDialog works just fine for this purpose.
FolderBrowserDialog works, but offers very little customization.
If you want a textbox where users can type in the path have a look here
Dupe of:
Browse for a directory in C#
Whatever you do, don't use the FolderBrowserDialog.
Just kidding. Use that.