Question

using openFileDialog will not return a filename in use, I want the filename only I don’t care if it’s in use

The file will most likely be in use, I just want to be able to find the file and retrieve its name and location to perform a connection.

OpenFileDialog works until I select the file, then it has a popup that says “File in Use”. I don’t want it to check for that, just return the filename.

Answer 1

It seems that setting the ValidateNames property to false solves the problem (but don’t ask why 🙂 …)

Here’s the code I used to try out:

var f=File.OpenWrite(@"C:\test.txt");
var ofd = new OpenFileDialog();
ofd.ValidateNames = false;
ofd.ShowDialog();
f.Close();

Commenting out the third line gave me the described error “file in use”.