If you are using VS 2008 or VS 2005 just drop an OpenFileDialog from the toolbox on your form
Yes, I am using VS 2008 and i've drag and drop an openFileDialog but how can I initiate it. It simply shows below the Main form i've created with buttons on it.
Do I need to initiate behind any button click event?
Have you checked what properties and how to use the dialogbox as per the helpfile? If we hand you all the code you dont learn how to find these things and will end up frustrated as you have to ask for everything and it takes longer.
If you look at the dialogbox in the helpfile, it has examples, it shows how to get the filename and stuff back, then the label component has properties of its own and you can see how to apply them..
Far more pride and joy is got by doing it yourself.
Totally agree to your message. I just figured it out. Thanks to all the forum members who replied. Just one more thing as of now, can I truncate the selectedPath to only the folder name that the users selects. folderName shows the complete path and i don't have much space in the designed label to cater to the long and lengthy paths.
Have you checked what properties and how to use the dialogbox as per the helpfile? If we hand you all the code you dont learn how to find these things and will end up frustrated as you have to ask for everything and it takes longer.
If you look at the dialogbox in the helpfile, it has examples, it shows how to get the filename and stuff back, then the label component has properties of its own and you can see how to apply them..
Far more pride and joy is got by doing it yourself.
Sure, you can, e.g. using method LastIndexOf() to find the last slash character in the returned string ... your folder name will be placed after the last slash.
Last edited by Antenka; Jan 4th, 2009 at 3:59 pm. Reason: Mistaken :(
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