BROWSING THE CLOUD

Question

My desktop application needs to save certain files in a folder selected by the user. FolderBrowserDialog can do the job, but only for local files; it does not 'see' network folders and the cloud.
I would like to allow the user select a folder e.g. in OneDrive, or DropBox, or what have you - provided of course he has an account.

Answer 1

The OpenFileDialog seems to be able to achieve your needs.

var fileContent = string.Empty;  
var filePath = string.Empty;  
  
using (OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog())  
{  
    openFileDialog.InitialDirectory = "c:\\";  
    openFileDialog.Filter = "txt files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*";  
    openFileDialog.FilterIndex = 2;  
    openFileDialog.RestoreDirectory = true;  
  
    if (openFileDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)  
    {  
        //Get the path of specified file  
        filePath = openFileDialog.FileName;  
  
        //Read the contents of the file into a stream  
        var fileStream = openFileDialog.OpenFile();  
  
        using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(fileStream))  
        {  
            fileContent = reader.ReadToEnd();  
        }  
    }  
}  
  
MessageBox.Show(fileContent, "File Content at path: " + filePath, MessageBoxButtons.OK);  

Is there anything you need that it doesn't have?

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