C# 2008 fileopendialog - C# / C Sharp

Peted

Hi
is there a way to use the fileopen dialog in c# 2008, so that when i
am traversing a directory to find a file to open, if i click on a
shortcut to a file or a shortcut to a directory, it will open the file
or diretory pointed to by that shortcut.
Of course if the shortcut is point to a directory it should just take
to that directory to let me select a file inside.

At the moment i cannot get the fileopen dialog to show any shortcuts
in the directory i am looking at.

Any help appreciated

thanks

Peted

Jun 27 '08 #1

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KWienhold

On 24 Jun., 06:55, Peted wrote:

Hi
is there a way to use the fileopen dialog in c# 2008, so that when i
am traversing a directory to find a file to open, if i click on a
shortcut to a file or a shortcut to a directory, it will open the file
or diretory pointed to by that shortcut.
Of course if the shortcut is point to a directory it should just take
to that directory to let me select a file inside.

At the moment i cannot get the fileopen dialog to show any shortcuts
in the directory i am looking at.

Any help appreciated

thanks

Peted

Normally you would set OpenFileDialog. DereferenceLink s to determine
how the Dialog deals with shortcuts, however, as far as I am aware,
the default setting should already be to follow the shortcut.
Could you possibly post a short example of the code that is causing
the problem?

Kevin

Jun 27 '08 #2

Peted

My bad,
i got myself totaly confused and made a mistake

to clarify this i should have said

i wanted to use FolderBrowserDi alog to browse through a directory
structure, and if there was a shortcut pointing to another directory
be able to select the shortcut and go there,

however it is FolderBrowserDi alog that apparently does not show
shortcuts becasue shortcuts are actually files.

and i cant use the OpenFileDialog becasue i cant select folders with
it.

Is it possible tocombine the features of one into the other, i think
to make the FolderBrowserDi alog select and use shortcuts would be my
best option.

Is this possible ?

thanks for any help

Peted

>
Normally you would set OpenFileDialog. DereferenceLink s to determine
how the Dialog deals with shortcuts, however, as far as I am aware,
the default setting should already be to follow the shortcut.
Could you possibly post a short example of the code that is causing
the problem?

Kevin

Jun 27 '08 #3

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