C# WPF Tutorial #10 - OpenFileDialog (File Picker)

How to use the OpenFileDialog class to select file(s) from our file system, as well as a few tricks for filtering, dialog setup, multiselect, and more!
Happy Coding!
Chapters:
0:00 Setup
0:16 Opening the Dialog
1:05 Getting Dialog Results
2:33 Filter
3:31 Initial Directory
3:52 Title
4:08 Multiselect
5:05 Next Up

[@andrehufschmid]

Perfect. Finally someone that gets to the point and to the relevant information rather than confusing everyone like in many other videos.

[@KampaPlays]

Thanks so much, glad it was helpful!

[@mahdihoumani5859]

Thank you so much for these great tutorials, you explain them in a great way and straight to the point.

[@KampaPlays]

Thank you!!!

[@rahulgoutham7102]

Hi Kampa 🙂
This tutorial is very easy to follow and understand the WPF.
I am halfway to finish this.
Thanks a lot 👍

[@KampaPlays]

Great to hear, thanks!!

[@DavidCoded]

Great tutorial!👍

[@KampaPlays]

Thank you!

[@elasdebastos235]

Great series man, it helps a lot for learning this technology. Personaly i am more intrested on managing Data files. Hope it gets explained later on the series. Thank you

[@KampaPlays]

Thank you! I plan on continuing soon. What sort of data file management do you mean?

[@elasdebastos235]

@@KampaPlays bindings, or connecting a database. I am trying to make sort of like a chat that stores data

[@vikasmalik9873]

You are the great Teacher. please make a video on MAUI Also. because xaml is totally new for me and for others

[@KampaPlays]

Thank you! I'll keep that in mind. I might also do Avalonia... several good options for cross platform out there!

[@zobun]

I Love this course!

[@KampaPlays]

So glad!!

[@Nbveh01]

thanks you for great tutorials

[@KampaPlays]

Glad to help!

[@TheFirestorMovie]

Nice tutorial. I have a question. How do I save fileName into some method or class? I want to call it after thet from another file. Thank you

[@KampaPlays]

Thanks!
There are several ways you could do that - you could:
1. make the string fileName a property in the class scope, so when the method finishes, it is stored there and you could use it as you like. (you could also create a get method or make it a public property to access from elsewhere)
2. use a viewmodel to separate this info from the GUI (see tutorial #23)
3. create a separate class to store the information and create an object of that class to pass around to where you need it (this would be a model, like class FileData with public string FileName)
hope this helps!!

[@epekfloyd6915]

Good tutorial, but please upload videos more often

[@KampaPlays]

Thank you, and thanks for watching! Between working full time, contracting, and family, I'm pretty much at my capacity doing one per week for now. Hopefully in the future I can put out more!

[@epekfloyd6915]

@@KampaPlays Let's hope, coz' these videos are great. I started learning these tutorials yesterday but sadly today it finished :(

[@KampaPlays]

Very nice! Thank you!!

[@wookyumkim4669]

@@epekfloyd6915 So do I 😂😂😂 Hoping more videos, cause this series are wonderful!

[@KampaPlays]

Thank you! Still at it!