There has been a lot of discussion in the community on how this feature should be integrated into the existing model of file dialogs, trying to balance compatibility requirements, clean architectural design and underlying API structure. NET 8, we are shipping native support for this dialog in WPF.
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Until now, developers had to use Windows Forms or rely on third-party libraries to be able to provide this experience, introducing unnecessary dependencies without fitting into the existing model of dialogs. Example use cases include opening a folder in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code, saving attachments in Outlook or extracting compressed files into a folder of user’s choice. Requested feature within the WPF community was a dialog for selecting folders. Applications running in compatibility mode continue to work, but they will present common dialogs using the Common Item Dialog API instead. As a part of this update, the dialog code was cleaned up and infrastructure for the legacy functions was removed, since all Windows versions supported by.
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Until now, WPF supported both Common Item Dialog API introduced in Windows Vista and the legacy GetOpenFileName and GetSaveFileName functions when running on older operating systems. This includes the top voted API suggestion in the repository to date – the OpenFolderDialog control to allow users to select a folder – as well as several new properties on file dialogs in general, enabling new user scenarios such as separately persisted states, limiting folder navigation etc. We are thrilled to announce a new set of improvements to the common file dialog API in WPF, starting with.