Getting the last opened file in fileopen dialog box

Question

In FileOpen or FileSave dialogbox when I call them, they automatically go to the last opened path. This happens even if I close my application and open it. But how to get that path/file name to a textbox or variable?

Answer 1

it seems a bit weired but under Windows 7 it works with the folling:

OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
openFileDialog.InitialDirectory = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyComputer);

Try it and tell me if you need further help.

Answer 2

Presumably the information is stored somewhere in the depths of the registry (it's done by the unmanaged control to which OpenFileDialog is only a wrapper). The easiest would probably be to persist the path the last time the dialog was closed in your application somewhere where you can access it.