C# - Open File Dialog

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OpenFileDialog is a class in C# defined under System.Windows.Forms that provides easy way to invoke file dialog and browse the file information. This is very similar to CFileDialog class in MFC.

 

 

Source Code

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private void openToolStripMenuItem1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

        OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();

        ofd.InitialDirectory = "c:\\";

        ofd.Filter = "jpeg files (*.jpg)|*.jpg|" +

                         "gif files (*.gif)|*.gif|" +

                         "tiff files (*.tiff)|*.tiff|" +

                         "bmp files (*.bmp)|*.bmp|" +

                         "png files (*.png)|*.png|" +

                         "All files (*.*)|*.*";

 

      ofd.FilterIndex = 1;

      ofd.RestoreDirectory = true;

      ofd.ShowDialog();

      string fname = ofd.FileName;

}

 

Output

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Open the file dialog with the predefined the filter information.

 

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