How to Use an Open File Dialog Box in VisualBasic.Net
Are you learning how to use Visual Basic.Net? Would you like your VB.Net application to look more professional? When reading or writing to a file, you can use the OpenFileDialog control to make the process look and feel much more professional.
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First, start a project a VB.Net. Then "load" an instance of the OpenFileDialog control on a suitable form you want to use. You can do this by dragging the OpenFileDialog icon onto your form. You should see an instance of this control (or object) indicated at the bottom of the screen as "OpenFileDialog1." Now you are ready to display this dialog box.
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In order to open (or show) this box, you can programmatically do so by using the "ShowDialog" method. For example, create a button on your form. When the button is clicked, us ethe following code: OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog. As a result, when you press the run your program and press the button, a professional-looking dialog box will open where you can choose a file to open or specify a file that you can write to.
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Now that you have the Dialog box up and running, you can add some niceties. For example, before you use the ShowDialog method, you can use the InitialDirectory method to have the dialog box point to an initial directory. Make sure to use this method before you use the ShowDialog method.
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