Hello

Windows Forms contains the FolderBrowseDialog to browse, select and optionally create a folder.

However its not the best looking dialog and I notice that in VS2008 and Office 2007, the OpenFileDialog or something very similar is used to browse for a folder.

Is this customisation of the OpenFileDialog by Microsoft or is there some way to enable this behaviour,

Thanks

Steve

It looks like FolderBrowserDialog inherits from CommonDialog, while OpenFileDialog inherits from FileDialog, which in turn inherits from CommonDialog, so I would say no, FolderBrowserDialog is not a customization of OpenFileDialog. They are unrelated.

MSDN documentation for OpenFileDialog states:

"If you want to give the user the ability to select a folder instead of a file, use FolderBrowserDialog instead."

It looks like FolderBrowserDialog inherits from CommonDialog, while OpenFileDialog inherits from FileDialog, which in turn inherits from CommonDialog, so I would say no, FolderBrowserDialog is not a customization of OpenFileDialog. They are unrelated.

MSDN documentation for OpenFileDialog states:

"If you want to give the user the ability to select a folder instead of a file, use FolderBrowserDialog instead."