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I need to have the user pick a directory on the hard disk, not a file. Can you do this with an OpenFileDialog? Do you need another control? What control? Can you include a snippet of code to show me how to create this directory picker?

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Joe_Griffith

Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.Windows.Forms.Design

Public Class clsSpFolderBrowser
Inherits FolderNameEditor
Dim mo_FB As New FolderBrowser()

Public Sub New()
MyBase.new()
mo_FB.Style = FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowserStyles.RestrictToFilesystem
mo_FB.StartLocation = FolderBrowserFolder.Desktop ' Seems to be limited to this enumeration
End Sub

Public Sub ShowDialog()
mo_FB.ShowDialog()
End Sub

Public ReadOnly Property DirectoryPath() As String
Get
Return mo_FB.DirectoryPath
End Get
End Property

Public WriteOnly Property Description() As String
Set(ByVal Value As String)
mo_FB.Description = Value
End Set
End Property
End Class

Dim po_FolderBrowser As New clsSpFolderBrowser()
po_FolderBrowser.Description = "Select a folder"
po_FolderBrowser.ShowDialog()
If po_FolderBrowser.DirectoryPath <> "" Then
x = po_FolderBrowser.DirectoryPath
End If

Éric Moreau

curmudgeon42

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Thanks that was perfect.