System.Windows.Forms.FileDialog: Property Members

The properties of System.Windows.Forms.FileDialog are listed below. For a list of all members, see the FileDialog Members list.

See Also: Inherited members from System.Windows.Forms.CommonDialog

Public Properties

AddExtensionbool.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box automatically adds an extension to a file name if the user omits the extension.

AutoUpgradeEnabledbool.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether this System.Windows.Forms.FileDialog instance should automatically upgrade appearance and behavior when running on wiprlhext.

CheckFileExistsbool.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box displays a warning if the user specifies a file name that does not exist.

CheckPathExistsbool.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box displays a warning if the user specifies a path that does not exist.

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CustomPlacesFileDialogCustomPlacesCollection.

Gets the custom places collection for this System.Windows.Forms.FileDialog instance.

DefaultExtstring.

Gets or sets the default file name extension.

DereferenceLinksbool.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box returns the location of the file referenced by the shortcut or whether it returns the location of the shortcut (.lnk).

FileNamestring.

Gets or sets a string containing the file name selected in the file dialog box.

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FileNamesstring[].

Gets the file names of all selected files in the dialog box.

Filterstring.

Gets or sets the current file name filter string, which determines the choices that appear in the "Save as file type" or "Files of type" box in the dialog box.

FilterIndexint.

Gets or sets the index of the filter currently selected in the file dialog box.

InitialDirectorystring.

Gets or sets the initial directory displayed by the file dialog box.

RestoreDirectorybool.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box restores the current directory before closing.

ShowHelpbool.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the Help button is displayed in the file dialog box.

SupportMultiDottedExtensionsbool.

Gets or sets whether the dialog box supports displaying and saving files that have multiple file name extensions.

Titlestring.

Gets or sets the file dialog box title.

ValidateNamesbool.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box accepts only valid Win32 file names.

Protected Properties

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InstanceIntPtr.

Gets the Win32 instance handle for the application.

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Optionsint.

Gets values to initialize the System.Windows.Forms.FileDialog.