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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:42:07+00:00

Similar to this question , after running the following code the browser dialog does

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Similar to this question, after running the following code the browser dialog does appear with all the correct buttons, but the selection area that usally displays available folders is missing:

[void] [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName( 'System.Windows.Forms' ) $d = New-Object Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog $d.ShowDialog( )
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  1. I encountered this problem a while back and found the following COM workaround on the MSDN forums:

    $app = new-object -com Shell.Application $folder = $app.BrowseForFolder(0, 'Select Folder', 0, 'C:\') if ($folder.Self.Path -ne '') {write-host 'You selected ' $folder.Self.Path}

    http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.controls&tid=3607557a-43b3-40bf-8276-be00526e0520&p=1

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