Get Full Path of selected file

[ssabc]

Hello:

Apparently, this is rocket science.

In System.IO, can I just return the full path of a file I have currently selected? Or even just the full filename would work.

[paulg4ije]

Depends what you mean by "currently selected". IO.Path can get all manner of stuff from a string containing a filepath/filename, such as GetFileName, GetFullPath, GetFileNameWithoutExtension etc.

[ssabc]

Dim fiFolder As String = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory

I can get the current directory. I need to also get the currently selected file... Keep in mind that I am not passing the file into this, it is just selected. If it can know the current directory, why not the first file I have selected?

Thanks for your reply

[Arve K.]

How do you select the file?

[si_the_geek]

Directory.GetCurrentDirectory just says which directory your application is currently running from (which can change while your program is running), it is not the same as the one your application is located in or was started from, and not one that is 'selected' somewhere.

You still haven't given a hint as to where the selected file(s) will be (is that somewhere in your program? another one that you have some kind of link to?), so we can't tell you how to detect them.