Windows Forms Openfiledialog

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I'm writing a little utility that starts with selecting a file, and then I need to select a folder. I'd like to default the folder to where the selected file was.

OpenFileDialog.FileName returns the full path & filename - what I want is to obtain just the path portion (sans filename), so I can use that as the initial selected folder.

Are there any .NET methods to do this, or do I need to use regex, split, trim, etc??

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Feb 11, 2019  The System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog component opens the Windows dialog box for browsing and selecting files. To open and read the selected files, you can use the OpenFileDialog.OpenFile method, or create an instance of the System.IO.StreamReader class. The following examples show both approaches. How to: Open files with the OpenFileDialog.; 4 minutes to read +8; In this article. The System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog component opens the Windows dialog box for browsing and selecting files. To open and read the selected files, you can use the OpenFileDialog.OpenFile method, or create an instance of the System.IO.StreamReader.

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Use the Path class from System.IO. It contains useful calls for manipulating file paths, including GetDirectoryName which does what you want, returning the directory portion of the file path.

Usage is simple.

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You can use FolderBrowserDialog instead of FileDialog and get the path from the OK result.

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How can I get the result (meaning the file name and its location) from an Open File Dialog?

My code:

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The OpenFileDialog class has a FileName property for that.

Typically, you want to make sure the user didn't cancel the dialog:

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This Link may be useful: http://softsprogrammer.blogspot.in/2014/03/openfiledialog-in-c.html

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