C#NET2008 OpenFileDialog Control

[lenniekuah]

Hullo my lovely friends,
I am back asking for help. Please help me.
I am trying to use OpenFileDialog control to display specific files with .XML extension and prompt the users to select only file with extension .XML

Apparently I don't know how to only display specific files with .XML on the FileDialog display screen. Instead it display all the files kept in the Folder. It's causing confusion to the users as the folder contained more than 540 files.

Here are my coding that is not displaying only specific files with .XML extension

 String strFileNameNPath
private void btnTemplate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
   //create an OpenfleDialog
   System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog dlgOpen = new System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog();
 
   //set properties for dlgOpen
   dlgOpen.Title =  "Select XML File ;
   dlgOpen.ShowReadOnly = true;
   dlgOpen.Multiselect = false;
 
   //display the dialog and return results
   if (dlgOpen.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
     {
       strFileNameNPath = dlgOpen.FileName;
       this.txtTemplate.Text = strFileNameNPath;
      }
  Else
      {
    messagebox.show(“Your cancel XML selection”)
      }
 } 

Thank you for helping me. Yaaa.....Hooo.. .....
Have a Good Day,
Cheers,
Lennie

[GaryTexmo]

Look up the MSDN article for OpenFileDialog. There's a Filter property that should help you out.

Good luck!

[lenniekuah]

Gary
Prior to posting my problem here I did tried to look at MSDN and couldn't find the article as I don't know the URL Link Address.

What what is the URL Link address ?

[GaryTexmo]

I just searched off the main page.
OpenFileDialog class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...iledialog.aspx

Filter property: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...og.filter.aspx

Code example on that last page. Give it a try and let us know if you have any troubles.

*Edit: If it helps, when I search MSDN I just typed the class name. It suggested the filter property as the second hit, the first was the class itself. If I'm googling, I usually search with "C# MSDN OpenFileDialog" replacing OpenFileDialog with whatever class name I'm interested in. Another helpful tip is to just google "C# <my problem here>", I find that generates some good hits.