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FileDialogCustomPlacesCollection Class

Represents a collection of Windows Vista custom places for the FileDialog class.

Namespace:  System.Windows.Forms
Assembly:  System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)

'Declaration
Public Class FileDialogCustomPlacesCollection _
	Inherits Collection(Of FileDialogCustomPlace)
'Usage
Dim instance As FileDialogCustomPlacesCollection

On Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, this class does not have any effect.

The following code example demonstrates how to use the FileDialogCustomPlacesCollection. To run this example, paste the following code into a Windows Form and call InitializeDialogAndButton from the form's constructor or Load event-handling method.

Private openFileDialog1 As OpenFileDialog
Private WithEvents button1 As Button

Private Sub InitializeDialogAndButton() 
    Me.openFileDialog1 = New System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog()
    Me.button1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Button()
    Me.button1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(53, 37)
    Me.button1.AutoSize = True 
    Me.button1.Text = "Show dialog with custom places." 
    Me.button1.UseVisualStyleBackColor = True 

    Me.Controls.Add(Me.button1)

End Sub 


Private Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) _
    Handles button1.Click

    ' Add Pictures custom place using GUID.
    openFileDialog1.CustomPlaces.Add("33E28130-4E1E-4676-835A-98395C3BC3BB")

    ' Add Links custom place using GUID
    openFileDialog1.CustomPlaces.Add(New FileDialogCustomPlace _
        (New Guid("BFB9D5E0-C6A9-404C-B2B2-AE6DB6AF4968")))

    ' Add Windows custom place using file path.
    openFileDialog1.CustomPlaces.Add("c:\Windows")

    openFileDialog1.ShowDialog()

End Sub

System.Object
  System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection(Of FileDialogCustomPlace)
    System.Windows.Forms.FileDialogCustomPlacesCollection

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5 SP1, 3.0 SP1, 2.0 SP1
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