Name
SaveFileDialog Class
Namespace
System.Windows.Forms
Createable
Yes
Description
Represents a common dialog box for selecting or saving a file. The most common use of this dialog box is to ask the user for the name of a file, after which we can use VB’s functions to save an existing file under that name, since the dialog box itself does not handle the process of saving a file.
The SaveFileDialog
object has properties for
setting the initial appearance and functionality of the dialog box, a
property for returning the filename selected by the user, as well as
a method for showing the dialog box. The object does not itself save
the file, but instead provides the information that allows your code
to do this programmatically.
A SaveFileDialog
object can be instantiated as
follows:
Dim oSaveDlg As New SaveFileDialog
Selected SaveFileDialog Members
The following is a brief list of some of the more important members of the SaveFileDialog class:
- AddExtension property
Gets or sets a Boolean value that determines whether the default file extension is automatically added to the FileName property if the user fails to enter an extension. Its default value is
True
.- DefaultExt property
Gets or sets a String that defines the default file extension. The string should consist of the file extension only, without a period.
- FileName property
Gets or sets a String containing the name that the user selected or entered in the dialog box.
- Filter property
Gets or sets a String containing the current filter, ...
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