Standard WPF folder dialog to select folder

Question

Hi,

I develop WPF4 application and in my app I need to let user to select a folder where aplication will store something (files, generated reports etc.).

My requirements:

— Ability to see standard folder tree

— Ability to select folder

— WPF look & feel, thid dialog must looks like part of modern application designed for Windows Vista/7 and not Windows 2000 or even Win9x.

 

As I understood, till 2010 (.Net 4.0) there is no standard folder dialog, but may be there is some changes in version 4.0?

Or all what rest to do is use old-scholl WinForms dialog? If it's the only way to do what I need so, how to make it closer to Vista/7 style and not Win9x?

On some formus I saw implementation of such dialogs but with old ugly icons a la Windows 95. It really doesn't look nice.

 

Thanks.

 

P.S. I hope to see standard folder WPF-dialog in .Net 4.0 SP1.

Answer 1

Folder Browser Dialog is not available in WPF. But you can create a custom dialog according to your need. Below are few links which you can try.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPF_Folder_Browser.aspx
http://wpfcontrib.codeplex.com/  (contains a class for FolderBrowserDialog)

Else you can use FolderBrowserDialog of Windows Forms i.e. by importing System.Windows.Forms.

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Gaurav Khanna

Answer 2

hi, toucki,

 

this library gives you a windows vista/7 style file and folder dialog

http://www.ookii.org/software/dialogs/

 

its winforms, not wpf, but still its got a very nice dialog.

 

check its license works for your project.

 

as far as i know, wpf doesnt have a nice looking file dialog as default.

 

Cheers

Anton