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Jim Toth
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I want to allow my users to select a path on their hard drive in which to save files (by default). I've looked at both the OpenFileDialog class and the SaveFileDialog class, but those both look like they operate on files and not on directories alone. Does anyone know of a built-in dialog that allows the user to select a path only?

- Jim
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Erik Brown
ttJim,

This recently appeared on microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp.
Haven't tried it, but should do what you want:

Erik

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public class BrowseForFolder : FolderNameEditor
{
FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser fBrowser;

public BrowseForFolder()
{
fBrowser = new
System.Windows.Forms.Design.FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser();
}

public string ShowIt(string textdescription)
{
// set the Description label
fBrowser.Description = textdescription;
fBrowser.ShowDialog(); // show the Windows
return fBrowser.DirectoryPath;// return whatever path choosen
}

~BrowseForFolder()
{
// destructor
fBrowser.Dispose();
}
}

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Erik Brown
Author of "Windows Forms Programming with C#"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930110286t
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