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OpenFileDialog Help

Hi, I'm trying to make a media player in vb.net. What I'm having trouble with is selecting music to add to a listbox. What I've tried to do is:

        OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "Audio Files (*.mp3)|*.mp3|" & "Audio Files (*wav)|*.wav|" & "All files|*.*"

        OpenFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = System.Environment.CurrentDirectory

        OpenFileDialog1.FilterIndex = 1

        If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then

            lstMusic.Items.Add(OpenFileDialog1.FileNames)


        End If

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Every time I added a song it added only 1 song saying System.String[] how do I fix this?

Help will be appreciated

rockiroads

this line

lstMusic.Items.Add(OpenFileDialog1.FileNames)

is referring to the list of filenames. It returns the string array

For a single file selection drop the s

lstMusic.Items.Add(OpenFileDialog1.FileName)

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trestan

OpenFileDialog1.FileNames is an array, you need to get the value of one element from the array. Or. you can use OpenFileDialog1.FileName, which contains only one file path.

You need to loop through the array to add the string value into the listbox one by one.

trestan

OpenFileDialog1.FileNames is an array, you need to get a value of one element from the array using array index. Or. you can use OpenFileDialog1.FileName, which contains only one file path.

You need to loop through the array to add the string values into the listbox one by one.

rockiroads

sorry, that was vb.net posted code. here is the c# equivalent

foreach (f in OpenFileDialog1.FileNames) {
lstMusic.Items.Add(f);
}

trestan

Sorry for the redundant submit. Error happened and I thought it's not through.

Jordy1212

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Thanks!