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July 20th, 2000, 03:46 PM
I want to use the Common Dialog control (or something similar) to allow the user to select a directory. I've seen it done before in applictions, and was wondering if VB provides any controls or such for that.

Thanks for your help.

John G Duffy
July 20th, 2000, 07:58 PM
There are no controls that I know of but Randy Birch from VBNET has a sample using APIs that can do this using the API interface into Windows
go to VBNET.com and scrounge around for a sample that looks something like "FolderExists"

John G

John G Duffy
July 20th, 2000, 08:02 PM
I looked before I lept. Apparently VBNET.com is undergoing renovations and is not available but you might try
Http://www/Planet-Source-Code.com/VB

there is a wealth of info there and I am sure you can find what you want

John G

Chris Eastwood
July 21st, 2000, 03:18 AM
Take a look at :

http://codeguru.earthweb.com/vb/articles/2054.shtml

- this is a single BAS module you can drop in your code to show the Browse/Folders window and return the selected folder name.

Chris Eastwood

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