Limit folderbrowserdialog to one folder

Question

I've got a folderbrowserdialog that will open to a certain folder, lets say C:\Temp.

Within this folder are a number of folders, e.g C:\Temp\1\ C:\Temp\2\ etc.

Now i only want the user to be able to select a folder inside C:\Temp, e.g select 1 or 2.

Is there an easy way to do this within the folderbrowserdialog or shall i rethink my approach and just display the folders in a dropbox or something and have them select if from there?

Cheers

Would it not make sense to just make your own dialog and display only the folders? — BugFinder, Jun 22 '18 at 09:34
It probably would yes, if there's no easy way to do it with the folderbrowserdialog i'll do something like what you've said and just have a dialog with my folders listed, but wanted to see if there was an easy way first :) — Ben Bodie, Jun 22 '18 at 09:36
Is there a "SelectionChanged" event in the dialog? If yes you could check the event and in case the selected path is outside the bounds drop the user back into the original. — Markus Deibel, Jun 22 '18 at 10:33
In the default folderbrowser you can capture the 'ok' button being clicked, which is when a folder is selected. So you can do a loop at this stage. However i think i might just go with a combobox solution :-) — Ben Bodie, Jun 22 '18 at 10:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '18 at 12:54

If it's not a SpecialFolder you can't limit it to this folder only. If it is a special folder, then you can set a RootFolder property for FolderBrowserDialog.

var d= new System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog { RootFolder= Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData};
d.ShowDialog();

Limit folderbrowserdialog to one folder

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