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OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog Method

.NET Framework 4

Displays a common dialog.

This member is overloaded. For complete information about this member, including syntax, usage, and examples, click a name in the overload list.

Overload List

	Name	Description
	ShowDialog()	Displays a common dialog. (Inherited from CommonDialog.)
	ShowDialog(Window)	Displays a common dialog. (Inherited from CommonDialog.)

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Remarks

ShowDialog performs initialization tasks for all common dialogs before calling RunDialog. Since RunDialog requires an owner window, ShowDialog attempts to assign one in the following order of precedence:

The current application's active window.
The current application's parking window.
An internally generated hidden window.

.NET Framework Security

UIPermission
to execute this method without raising of an exception. Associated enumeration: AllWindows

Reference

OpenFileDialog Class

Microsoft.Win32 Namespace

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