User navigates to folder, I save that folder location to a string.

Question

How can I do this?

I want a user to click a button and then a small window pops up and lets me end-user navigate to X folder. Then I need to save the location of the folder to a string variable.

Any help, wise sages of StackOverflow?

Answer 1

If you're using Winforms, you can use a FolderBrowserDialog control. The path the user selects will be in the SelectedPath property.

Answer 2

    using (FolderBrowserDialog dlg = new FolderBrowserDialog())
    {
        if (dlg.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK)
        {
            string s = dlg.SelectedPath;
        }
    }

(remove this if you aren't already in a winform)

Answer 3

string path = null;
FolderBrowserDialog dlg = new ();
if (dlg.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
    path = dlg.SelectedPath;
}