[RESOLVED] Search for a folder path and save it as a variable.

[nabspot]

I wrote a program that consolidates my departments everyday work duties. I work for a duplication company that burns digital media for libraries. Right now the program I made is "hard coded" to display 2 specific folders in a tree-view. However the company has been changing around the network drives and the folder paths keep changing. This results in me having to open the project, change the paths, re-publish the project, and then re-install it on all the machines (12).

I have made a new form in the project called "settings" and would like the user to be able to open up the settings form to search for a folder path and "Save" it. I assume I would save the path as a label.text and then in the tree-view code set the path to "Folder A" = lable.text and "Folder B" = lable2.text.

But I am stumped as to how to setup the navigation to a folder and saving the path as a label. I am new to programming but have been trying to learn as much as possible. Once I figure this out I think I can figure out how to save user settings so they wont erase when the program closes.

So far I tried OpenFileDialog but I think that is just for files. Thanks for you help in advance everyone.
This forum has been mroe than helpful.

[IanRyder]

Hi,

You need to use a FolderBrowserDialog control to do what you are looking for. You can then setup a Variable in the Settings of your Project as type System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection, saving your folder paths as you need. Then each time you load your projects you can Read your setting and populate your TreeView as necessary. i.e-

To save your folders:-

If FolderBrowserDialog1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
  If IsNothing(My.Settings.tvFolders) Then
    My.Settings.tvFolders = New System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection
  End If
  My.Settings.tvFolders.Add(FolderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath)
End If

To read your folders:-

If Not IsNothing(My.Settings.tvFolders) Then
  For Each strFolder In My.Settings.tvFolders
    'Add folders to the TreeView
    MsgBox(strFolder)
  Next
End If

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Ian

[nabspot]

Ian this is exactly what I was looking for. Sorry if I'm asking rudimentary questions.

You have delivered yet again. Thank you so much.