totally at a loss with openfiledialog extension

[jkw119]

i have the following code

Dim myStream As System.IO.Stream
Dim openFileDialog1 As New OpenFileDialog()
 
openFileDialog1.Title = "Open a File"
openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "c:\"
openFileDialog1.Filter = "xml files (*.xml)|*.xml|All files (*.*)|*.*"
openFileDialog1.FilterIndex = 1
openFileDialog1.RestoreDirectory = True
 
If openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
            myStream = openFileDialog1.OpenFile()
            fileName = openFileDialog1.FileName
            MsgBox(fileName)
            If Not (myStream Is Nothing) Then
                myStream.Close()
            End If
End If

the thing that gets me, is that when i display the string name "filename" in the message box, it has two extension,

"test.xml.xml"

how can i only make it add one extension... I have no idea what is wrong..

thanks,

jeff

[DevGrp]

I dont know what you are doing wrong, cause I tried the code it worked ok.

BTW what do you have fileName declared as?

I declared it as a string and it worked perfect.

Hope that helped

[Dillinger4]

Did you name your files with the extension? I know that sounds stupid but if you name a text file Text.txt.txt you will get two extensions. I can't see either why your code would do that since the first part of the filter is just a description of the file type.
Try changing the first part of the filter just to see. ie......

OpenFileDialog.Filter = "TextFiles|*.txt|AllFiles| *.*|ExcelFiles|*.xls"

[Frans C]

Could it be that you have set the option to hide extensions for known filetypes in explorer?
Maybe the file really is named test.xml.xml, and explorer hides the extension so it looks like it is named test.xml

[jkw119]

i did name the file with two extensions, i must have not got enough sleep yesterday. the code works perfect...

thanks,

jeff

[Cander]

jkw deserves a kick in the butt


You get a big D'uh

[Dillinger4]

[Tenebrosity]

Answered m own question. hahahaha