Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

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Published Monday, September 01, 2003 10:36 PM by RoyOsherove
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Monday, September 01, 2003 7:10 PM by Duncan Mackenzie (MSDN)

# re: Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

Of course, in 1.1 you can just use the FolderBrowser component included in Windows Forms
Monday, September 01, 2003 7:22 PM by Roy Osherove

# re: Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

Duncan, For the life of me I can't find any reference to a class or component named "FolderBrowser" in winforms using Vs.Net 2003 (other than the one mentioned in this post). How can I reach it?
Monday, September 01, 2003 8:47 PM by Husein Choroomi

# re: Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWindowsFormsFolderBrowserDialogClassTopic.asp
Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:20 AM by Derek Stone

# re: Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

I mention in the discussion portion of the article that .NET 1.1 contains a preferred class called FolderBrowserDialog, located in System.Windows.Forms of course. Apologies for the confusion. I've emended the article and added in an editors note.
Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:06 AM by Marc Shiker

# re: Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

I remember the Microsoft discouragement as well and I believe it was in v 1.0 of the framework. It drove me crazya that that class wasn't available for use since it seems like it is one of the more common tasks that a Windows forms programmer performs. I was glad to see that discouamgement is no longer present.
Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:50 AM by Roy Osherove

# re: Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

Anyone know of any reason why my home copy of VS.Net does not show this class as part of the framework, while my work copy does? Perhaps its due to the fact that I have win2k3 at home or something?
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:27 PM by Charit Arora

# re: Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

Add System.Design.dll to your refrences. That should do teh trick.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:52 PM by Dave Lowe

# re: Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

Also make sure you are running v1.1 of the .NET Framework.
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:14 AM by david liswineky

# re: Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

I have visual studio.net 2002 only, how can I run v1.1 of the .NET framework ?