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| How to open a common dialog box | Learn about how to show a system dialog box in Windows Foundation Presentation (WPF). System dialog boxes prompt users for information, choosing a file to load or save, or displaying the printer window. | 03/15/2021 |
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How to open a common dialog box (WPF .NET)
This article demonstrates how you can display a common system dialog box in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Windows implements different kinds of reusable dialog boxes that are common to all applications, including dialog boxes for selecting files and printing.
Since these dialog boxes are provided by the operating system, they're shared among all the applications that run on the operating system. These dialog boxes provide a consistent user experience, and are known as common dialog boxes. As a user uses a common dialog box in one application, they don't need to learn how to use that dialog box in other applications.
A message box is another common dialog box. For more information, see How to open a message box.
Open File dialog box
The open file dialog box is used by file opening functionality to retrieve the name of a file to open.
:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-open-common-system-dialog-box/open-file-dialog-box.png" alt-text="An Open dialog box showing the location to retrieve the file shown from a WPF application.":::
The common open file dialog box is implemented as the xref:Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog class and is located in the xref:Microsoft.Win32 namespace. The following code shows how to create, configure, and show one, and how to process the result.
:::code language="csharp" source="snippets/how-to-open-common-system-dialog-box/csharp/Window1.xaml.cs" id="OpenFile"::: :::code language="vb" source="snippets/how-to-open-common-system-dialog-box/vb/Window1.xaml.vb" id="OpenFile":::
For more information on the open file dialog box, see xref:Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog?displayProperty=nameWithType.
Save File dialog box
The save file dialog box is used by file saving functionality to retrieve the name of a file to save.
:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-open-common-system-dialog-box/save-file-dialog-box.png" alt-text="A Save As dialog box showing the location to save the file shown from a WPF application.":::
The common save file dialog box is implemented as the xref:Microsoft.Win32.SaveFileDialog class, and is located in the xref:Microsoft.Win32 namespace. The following code shows how to create, configure, and show one, and how to process the result.
:::code language="csharp" source="snippets/how-to-open-common-system-dialog-box/csharp/Window1.xaml.cs" id="SaveFile"::: :::code language="vb" source="snippets/how-to-open-common-system-dialog-box/vb/Window1.xaml.vb" id="SaveFile":::
For more information on the save file dialog box, see xref:Microsoft.Win32.SaveFileDialog?displayProperty=nameWithType.
Print dialog box
The print dialog box is used by printing functionality to choose and configure the printer that a user wants to print data to.
:::image type="content" source="media/how-to-open-common-system-dialog-box/print-data-dialog-box.png" alt-text="A print dialog box shown from a WPF application.":::
The common print dialog box is implemented as the xref:System.Windows.Controls.PrintDialog class, and is located in the xref:System.Windows.Controls namespace. The following code shows how to create, configure, and show one.
:::code language="csharp" source="snippets/how-to-open-common-system-dialog-box/csharp/Window1.xaml.cs" id="Print"::: :::code language="vb" source="snippets/how-to-open-common-system-dialog-box/vb/Window1.xaml.vb" id="Print":::
For more information on the print dialog box, see xref:System.Windows.Controls.PrintDialog?displayProperty=nameWithType. For detailed discussion of printing in WPF, see Printing overview.