Setting InitialDirectory

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Does anybody know how to set the InitialDirectory Property for Open or SaveFileDialog? Nothing I do seems to open either in the directory I specify. If I'm way off here does anybody know how to open these dialogs to display a specific directory

Here's the code I'm using for the InitialDirectory specification. I've also tried specifying this in the SaveFileDialog1 property window.

Dim SaveFileDialog1 As New SaveFileDialo
SaveFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "c:\My Documents

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Chuck,
Which OS are you on?

Does "C:\My Documents" actually exist?

I normally use code similar to:

Dim dialog As New SaveFileDialog
dialog.InitialDirectory =
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal)
dialog.RestoreDirectory = True
dialog.Filter = "My files(*.my)|*.my|All files (*.*)|*.*"
dialog.FilterIndex = 1
dialog.DefaultExt = "my"
If dialog.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
Dim stream As Stream = dialog.OpenFile()
Serialize(stream, document)
stream.Close()
End If


Which will set the initial directory to the "My Documents" folder for the
current user independent of the OS version.

Hope this helps
Jay

Does anybody know how to set the InitialDirectory Property for Open or

SaveFileDialog? Nothing I do seems to open either in the directory I
specify. If I'm way off here does anybody know how to open these dialogs to
display a specific directory?

Here's the code I'm using for the InitialDirectory specification. I've

also tried specifying this in the SaveFileDialog1 property window.

 

[Kent Boogaart]

I am a C# programmer so apologies if this is irrelevant: do you need to
escape the "\"? In C#, you would code it in one of these ways:

1) SaveFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "c:\\My Documents";

2) SaveFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = @"c:\My Documents";

Not sure about VB.NET though . . .

Kent