Question

Is there a way for a open file dialog to use the “My Computer” instead of a specific path. In this example, the W: drive is the intial directory.

Dim dlgOpen As New Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog

dlgOpen.Filter = "Bases de données Access(*.mdb)|*.mdb"
dlgOpen.InitialDirectory = "W:"

I figure there must be a value or function that return the My Computer path, but what is it?

Thank you

Answer 1

My Computer is a virtual folder. It has a predefined GUID. Here is how you get My Computer

 OpenFileDialog d = new OpenFileDialog();
 d.InitialDirectory = "::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}";
 d.ShowDialog();

If you want to know about special folders

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.specialfolder.aspx

but be aware of

The MyComputer constant always yields
the empty string (“”) because no path
is defined for the My Computer folder.