Question

When using the Windows API Code Pack’s CommonOpenFileDialog, how do you retrieve the filename of a file (such as mydoc.text) without getting the path information?

Answer 1

Try this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.getfilename.aspx

string fileName = @"C:\mydir\myfile.ext";
string path = @"C:\mydir\";
string result;

result = Path.GetFileName(fileName);
Console.WriteLine("GetFileName('{0}') returns '{1}'", 
    fileName, result);

result = Path.GetFileName(path);
Console.WriteLine("GetFileName('{0}') returns '{1}'", 
    path, result);

// This code produces output similar to the following: 
// 
// GetFileName('C:\mydir\myfile.ext') returns 'myfile.ext' 
// GetFileName('C:\mydir\') returns ''