SaveFileDialog

[Guest]

In my VB .Net WinForm app, SaveFileDialog gives me an error msg
"C:\MyFile.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it?"

What I need to do is to append something to an existing file, so I want to
avoid this warning msg. I included "SaveFileDialog.CheckFileExists = False"
in my code, but the warning msg keeps showing up.

Please help, thanks.

 

[Crouchie1998]

Don't use the save file dialog & use stream writer

Dim sw As New IO.StreamWriter(C:\SomeFile.txt", True)

sw.WriteLine("You Text Here")

sw.Flush()

sw.Cloase()

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

In my VB .Net WinForm app, SaveFileDialog gives me an error msg
"C:\MyFile.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it?"

I am not able to repro this behavior with .NET 1.1, Windows XP Professional
SP2 with a SaveFileDialog placed on a form.

 

[Guest]

Solved, thanks.

SaveFileDialog.OverwritePrompt = False

 

[Samuel R. Neff]

Set the OverwritePrompt property to false.

HTH,

Sam

In my VB .Net WinForm app, SaveFileDialog gives me an error msg
"C:\MyFile.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it?"

What I need to do is to append something to an existing file, so I want to
avoid this warning msg. I included "SaveFileDialog.CheckFileExists = False"
in my code, but the warning msg keeps showing up.

Please help, thanks.

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Errata:

I am not able to repro this behavior with .NET 1.1, Windows XP
Professional SP2 with a SaveFileDialog placed on a form.

Sorry, I had a bug in my code which leaded to wrong results. The
'OverwritePrompt' property of 'SaveFileDialog' is set to 'True' by default.
By changing its value 'False' prior to showing the dialog the messagebox is
not shown.