Show A Directory In A Textbox Using Something Like Openfiledialog Option
Jan 5, 2010
I need to have the user select a directory for the working directory. I know how to use the openfiledialog to list a file, but how do you do it for a directory?
This is my code at the moment. I want the TextBox to show the Directory of the file. (C:Documents and SettingsUserDesktopFile)
This is my TextBox Code
Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.TextChanged Me.Text = OpenFileDialog1.FileName End Sub
This is my Button Code
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() End Sub
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I want to save the directory that a user chooses when they open a file with the OpenFileDialog. I currently have
FileDir=My.Computer.FileSystem.CurrentDirectory
after the open dialog, and this works ok in Windows XP. But on Windows Vista this seems to give the Application (.exe) directory, whihc is not what we want.
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I recently have had lots of problems getting a text box to display only numbers or special characters and or letters only. Much research on past posts just compounded the problem as the code is either for previous versions or other language. So I thought I would post a bit of code that works great with VB 2010
Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyPress e.Handled = True
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I am writing a program that will read files from a directory and show the thumbnails, then rename the selected files with a time/date stamp and policy number.