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Asked: 2026-05-18T09:18:14+00:00

I’ve read about the property on MSDN, but I still don’t understand what it

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I’ve read about the property on MSDN, but I still don’t understand what it does.

Gets or sets a value indicating
whether the dialog box restores the
current directory before closing.

What exactly does that mean? What does ‘restoring’ the current directory actually do? Thanks for the help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    IIRC, in windows XP when you press Save on a SaveFileDialog (or Open on a OpenFileDialog) the directory where the file is saved (or opened), is set as the new current working directory (the one in Environment.CurrentDirectory).

    By setting FileDialog.RestoreDirectory = true, when you close the FileDialog the original working directory is restored.

    In Windows Vista/Seven the behavior is always as FileDialog.RestoreDirectory = true (yes, even if you set it to false…).

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