Hi
is there a way to use the fileopen dialog in c# 2008, so that when i
am traversing a directory to find a file to open, if i click on a
shortcut to a file or a shortcut to a directory, it will open the file
or diretory pointed to by that shortcut.
Of course if the shortcut is point to a directory it should just take
to that directory to let me select a file inside.

At the moment i cannot get the fileopen dialog to show any shortcuts
in the directory i am looking at.

Any help appreciated

thanks

Peted

On 24 Jun., 06:55, Peted wrote:
> Hi
> is there a way to use the fileopen dialog in c# 2008, so that when i
> am traversing a directory to find a file to open, if i click on a
> shortcut to a file or a shortcut to a directory, it will open the file
> or diretory pointed to by that shortcut.
> Of course if the shortcut is point to a directory it should just take
> to that directory to let me select a file inside.
>
> At the moment i cannot get the fileopen dialog to show any shortcuts
> in the directory i am looking at.
>
> Any help appreciated
>
> thanks
>
> Peted

Normally you would set OpenFileDialog.DereferenceLinks to determine
how the Dialog deals with shortcuts, however, as far as I am aware,
the default setting should already be to follow the shortcut.
Could you possibly post a short example of the code that is causing
the problem?

Kevin

My bad,
i got myself totaly confused and made a mistake

to clarify this i should have said

i wanted to use FolderBrowserDialog to browse through a directory
structure, and if there was a shortcut pointing to another directory
be able to select the shortcut and go there,

however it is FolderBrowserDialog that apparently does not show
shortcuts becasue shortcuts are actually files.

and i cant use the OpenFileDialog becasue i cant select folders with
it.

Is it possible tocombine the features of one into the other, i think
to make the FolderBrowserDialog select and use shortcuts would be my
best option.

Is this possible ?

thanks for any help

Peted


>
>Normally you would set OpenFileDialog.DereferenceLinks to determine
>how the Dialog deals with shortcuts, however, as far as I am aware,
>the default setting should already be to follow the shortcut.
>Could you possibly post a short example of the code that is causing
>the problem?
>
>Kevin