FYI: SHBrowseForFolder assembly

Hi guys,
I thought you might find this interesting. After getting thoroughly frustrated with the complexity of making the SHBrowseForFolder API work, I did a search on GotDotNet and found the attached example.

It's really cool and complete. If you find this useful, cheers!

I'm giving acknowledgement to vrk75 whoever he may be. There's not much else for a reference.

or you could always my BrowseForFolder class with a lot less lines of code

Code:

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using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Forms.Design;

public class BrowseForFolder : FolderNameEditor
{
        FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser fBrowser = new System.Windows.Forms.Design.FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser();

        public BrowseForFolder()
        {
       
        }
       
        public string ShowIt()
        {
                fBrowser.Description = "Choose A Directory...";
                fBrowser.ShowDialog();
                return fBrowser.DirectoryPath;
        }


        ~BrowseForFolder()
        {
                fBrowser.Dispose();
        }

}

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usage

Code:

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BrowseForFolder go = new BrowseForFolder();
MessageBox.Show(go.ShowIt());

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now tell me...who da man?

<starts flexing muscles and posing>

thank god once again for WinCV...LOL

Quote:

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Originally posted by Cander
or you could always my BrowseForFolder class with a lot less lines of code

Code:

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using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Forms.Design;

public class BrowseForFolder : FolderNameEditor
{
        FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser fBrowser = new System.Windows.Forms.Design.FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser();

        public BrowseForFolder()
        {
       
        }
       
        public string ShowIt()
        {
                fBrowser.Description = "Choose A Directory...";
                fBrowser.ShowDialog();
                return fBrowser.DirectoryPath;
        }


        ~BrowseForFolder()
        {
                fBrowser.Dispose();
        }

}

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usage

Code:

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BrowseForFolder go = new BrowseForFolder();
MessageBox.Show(go.ShowIt());

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now tell me...who da man?

<starts flexing muscles and posing>

thank god once again for WinCV...LOL

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you been hacking my computer
?
just you stole that from me
:)
damn it

liar. trying to take credit for my hard earned work :eek:

Seriously though, did you have something like it? I have yet to see anyone else do it without API yet

nice one!

It does everything but select a user specified initial directory...

the class i inherited actually has that method/property..ill add that to he class

Cander,
I looked at it and it doesn't have what I'm looking for. You can set the startup dir to a special windows folder, but not to a user defined path (like "c:\MyFolder"). You can correct me if I'm wrong, but the StartLocation property is just an FolderBrowserFolder Enum.

Check it out....

yeah i noticed that..hmmm..

Quote:

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Originally posted by Cander
liar. trying to take credit for my hard earned work :eek:

Seriously though, did you have something like it? I have yet to see anyone else do it without API yet

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yep i do and i was gonna commment it n release it
good job dude

you know i lost so many of the class i wrote (forgot to back them up during format)
so i have to rewrite most of them
grrrrrr

D'OH! I lost alot of code once..it only takes once before you really leanr your lesson about back ups! :D

usually am very good at backing up
but EVERY TIME there is ONE thing that i forget
hehe
and that happened to be a vs project with lot of classes :)