I don't think there's an easy way to do this. I guess it might be possible
somehow by using the HookProc of the common dialog to modify the behaviour
of the open file dialog.

If this was my project, I would probably just not use the open file
dialog. It would be easy to create your own control based on a ListView,
that would show the files and directories in the current folder - and it
would probably be safer, considering you want to do this for security
reasons.

               Oliver Sturm

"KarenP" <KarenP@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

As Oliver says, you'll need a dialog hook to archieve this behavior.
However, similar, but far less user-friendly behavior can be archieved as
shown below:

\\\
Private Sub OpenFileDialog1_FileOk( _
       ByVal sender As Object, _
       ByVal e As CancelEventArgs _
) Handles OpenFileDialog1.FileOk
   If _
       Me.OpenFileDialog1.FileName <> _
       Path.Combine( _
           "C:\WINDOWS", _
           Path.GetFileName(Me.OpenFileDialog1.FileName) _
       ) _
   Then
       MsgBox( _
           "You must select a file in ""C:\WINDOWS""!", _
           MsgBoxStyle.Exclamation _
       )
       e.Cancel = True
   End If
End Sub

Private Sub Button1_Click( _
   ByVal sender As Object, _
   ByVal e As EventArgs _
) Handles Button1.Click
   Me.OpenFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "C:\WINDOWS"
   If Me.OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
       MsgBox("Selected file: """ & Me.OpenFileDialog1.FileName & """.")
   End If
End Sub
///

Thanks both of you for your responses.  I think I will just create my own
dialog to handle this.  I was hoping there was some not-well-documented code
or property I could use on the OpenFileDialog, but I guess not.

Thanks again,

Karen