*Resolved*In my series of simple questions on VB.Net, Heres another one

[veryjonny]

In VB6 we had the combination of drive + dir box, hey I do not want to use the compatibility.VB6

thingy...I just want to know the equivalent in .NET...anyone?

[Cander]

Do you mean the .NET equivilant of the shBrowseForFolder class?

[veryjonny]

hi Cander,

Forgive me for ignorance, but I am not sure what do you mean by shBrowseForFolder ...I dont think I have come across it in .NET yet or maybe VB6
But it did give me a start.

Here's the code of what I was trying to achieve:

Set s = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
s.browseforfolder Me.hWnd, "Please choose folder:", 0
Set s = Nothing

This displays the choose folder thingy even in .NET,however I have no idea how to get the return

value( the folder selected).

The browseforfolder, I did get in object browser - under Shell32.shell but have no knowledge, how

to use it in VB through early binding (dim x as something)

Also, if you remember you suggested it to me once that I shd use the object browser like a huge

search engine - however just like this example - Even if I find something in it , I do not

actually understand - how to use it in code - the help files associated in .NET documentation

also arent much useful, I mean atleast I cant find what i am looking for.

Also , I hope you wont mind looking at this thread as well.
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=190432

[Cander]

Imports System
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.Windows.Forms.Design

Public Class BrowseForFolder 
                Inherits FolderNameEditor 
	Dim fBrowser As FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser
	Dim fDir As String
	
	Public Sub New()
		fBrowser = new System.Windows.Forms.Design.FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser()
	End Sub
	
	Public Function ShowIt(ByVal textdescription As String) As DialogResult
		fBrowser.Description = textdescription
		Dim res As DialogResult = fBrowser.ShowDialog()
		fDir = fBrowser.DirectoryPath
		return res
	End Function
	
	Public Property Directory As Sting
	                Get
		        return fDir
		End Get
	End Property
End Class

add a refernce to System.Design.dll for this to work

to use...

Dim fBrowse As BrowseForFolder = new BrowseForFolder()
If fBrowse.ShowIt("Select a directory to extract to.") <> DialogResult.Cancel Then
MessageBox.Show(fBrowse.Directory)
End Id

[veryjonny]

hoya, thanks a lot cander.

But shdnt that be complete spoon feeding me

Really cant get a hang of VB7

[Cander]

I wouldnt call it spoon feeding..Actually it took me a LONG time to figure that out..it wasnt documented and I had to play around with it.

I originally wrote it in C# and quickly trasnfered it to VB, so I hope that works right!

[veryjonny]

Thats mean you are well-versed with C# as WELL

[Cander]

Originally posted by veryjonny
Thats mean you are well-versed with C# as WELL

Pretty much yeah. I find it very useful to know both C# and VB. That way, when I need to find some sample code, no matter wether it is C# or VB .NET, I can understand it.

[hellswraith]

I am not sure if this is what you want, but you can still get those controls in your toolbox by right clicking it, then selecting customize toolbox. The .Net tab has the drive list box and folder listbox in there.

Again, I didn't go through this whole post, just thought I would throw that out.

[veryjonny]

Thanks for the post - I was looking for .NET equivalent rather than VB6 compatibility one.

But the post by Cander did the needful.