Using Common Dialogs
In WPF 4 common dialogs are wrappers of Win32 dialogs. They are exposed by the Microsoft.Win32 namespace and are OpenFileDialog
and SaveFileDialog.
(WPF also provides a PrintDialog
control exposed by the System.Windows.Controls
namespace.) The following code demonstrates how you instantiate both dialogs:
Notice that the ShowDialog
method returns a Nullable(Of Boolean)
where True
means that the user clicks OK, False
when she clicks Cancel, and Nothing
when she closes the dialog.
Summary
In this chapter you took an overview of WPF’s most common used controls that you can use in your client applications, understanding how ...
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