how can i open a folder directly using WPF FolderBrowserDial

Hi Guys,

I have create a folder on my C: drive that contain shortcuts to Microsoft office programs such as word, excel and Power point.

i have created a WPF application in that application i have created a button : what i wanted to achieve is to be able when clicked on that button I only wanted to open the folder directly to show the shortcuts.

Is the above achievable ?

I have tried the following but not what i want

public static void OpenFolder()
{
FolderBrowserDialog openFol = new FolderBrowserDialog();
openFol.ShowNewFolderButton = false;
DialogResult result = openFol.ShowDialog();
if (result == DialogResult.OK)
{
openFol.SelectedPath = @"C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\wpf";
string foldername = openFol.SelectedPath;
}
}

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Abbas Hamza10y ago
Hi Guys,
I managed to achieve what i want by using the following code : Instead of using FolderBrowserDialog i used OpenFileDialog and set the initial directroy to the directory i wanted as follow:
OpenFileDialog opfd = new OpenFileDialog();
stringinitDir = @"C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\wpf";
opfd.InitialDirectory = Path.GetFullPath(initDir);
opfd.RestoreDirectory = true;
opfd.ShowDialog();