How Can I Show Users a Dialog Box for Selecting Files?

re: How Can I Show Users a Dialog Box for Selecting Files?

Rich Carlson — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:06:31 GMT

Does not work outside of XP - apparently it was removed "for security reasons".

Try

Const BIF_browseincludefiles = &H4000

Set ShellApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application")

Set Ret = ShellApp.BrowseForFolder(0, "Choose file.",BIF_browseincludefiles)

although I've never gotten this to work successfully either (it generates a "file not found" error, even though the file is clearly visible in the dialog).

Sigh.. how in the world could there not be a simple file dialog for VBS?

Only in Redmond

re: How Can I Show Users a Dialog Box for Selecting Files?

nanosquirt — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:40:20 GMT

you mentioned that you might address the issue of selecting multiple files in a future column -- might such a column exist?

re: How Can I Show Users a Dialog Box for Selecting Files?

1234 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:39:32 GMT

How to replace this code (Set objDialog = CreateObject("UserAccounts.CommonDialog")

) for use in windows 7 ?