Open/Save File Dialog

Question

Hi

I remember there was a feature in Open/Save File Dialogs allowing them to have separate startup folders, so new instance of all SaveFileDialogs will follow their own last opened folder on startup and the same for OpenFileDialogs...

But can't find it now, any tip? :)

Update: oops found it:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.filedialog.clientguid?view=windowsdesktop-7.0&viewFallbackFrom=netframework-4.0

But not for .net fw 4 or even 4.8?! So any workaround to have separate startup folders for Save and Open dialogs application wide?

Answer 1

Hi @Alec Pointer ,

FileDialog.InitialDirectory Property set the default directory.

FileDialog.RestoreDirectory Property set whether to save the last opened directory.

    openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "c:\"
    openFileDialog1.RestoreDirectory = True

Best Regards. 

Jiachen Li 

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