Comments on: Powershell Open File Dialog Box

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Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:05:30 +0000

[...] used to display a Windows open dialog box – this was based on code borrowed from Hugo Peeters http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/powershell/powershell-open-file-dialog-box/ – whom I send my thanks to for writing an excellent [...]

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:46:07 +0000

Jamey Westmoreland is right. I had to modify the -Filter to see the desired files

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:13:50 +0000

Thanks, worked for me too, appears to hang, but check the file/dialogue box hasnt appeared behind something else on screen! Anyone know how to alter this to allow selection of file Paths rather than specific files?

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:00:51 +0000

Thanks for posting this. Very helpful! Just had to make the correction that Jamey pointed out and it worked great!

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FileOpen und FileSave Dialoge mit Powershell « Uwes kleines Technikblog — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:18:04 +0000

[...] geringem Aufwand erstellen. Ein schönes Beispiel für einen entsprechenden Dialog habe ich unter http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/powershell/powershell-open-file-dialog-box/ [...]

By: antize

antize — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:09:15 +0000

There seems to be a problem with powershell hanging when using the showdialog method of the openfiledialog object… There seems to be a solution to this however which is to set the ShowHelp property to $true. The default is $false, and for some reason if it is set to $false powershell will hang.

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By: Jamey Westmoreland

Jamey Westmoreland — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:47:45 +0000

I think there is a mistake in your Example use for the filter. You have
-Filter “Powershell Scripts|(*.ps1)”

I think is should be
-Filter “Powershell Scripts (*.ps1)|*.ps1″
I made that change and then was able to see files

By: Harald Scholl

Harald Scholl — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:55:21 +0000

The function hangs at this point.
$Show = $objForm.ShowDialog()
But the Dialogbox does not appear
I think i’m missing samething.

By: rsj

rsj — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:08:56 +0000

I’m happy :)
Very good example on how to use winforms.

I referenced you on my blog for getting started with PS/toolkit.

Again thanks for a nice blog!