Visual Basic - How do you prevent user from navigating to another directory in folders?

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Hey, I just wonder how to prevent users from navigating to another directory. Example navigating from: "C:\" to "C:\WINDOWS". I want to stop all directory navigation for the user. I saw an article about this problem on this link: SaveFileDialog - InitialDirectory - prevent user from navigating to another directory[^], but I did not understand what the solution was. I heard you can use the SaveFileDialog's InitalDirectory. If someone could help me, please tell me if possible or not. Would be nice if you could show me the source code. Appreciated if you could clarify about this if not possible. :)

Note: This is for educational purposes only.

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- Rhaegal

Posted 9-Oct-15 3:06am

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Updated 9-Oct-15 3:19am

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CHill60 9-Oct-15 9:50am

We're not going to write a custom control for you.
Why not just prompt for the folder name instead of using the dialog

Member 12043303 9-Oct-15 9:53am

What do you mean by that? Any examples?

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Philippe Mori · Answer 1 · 2015-10-09T06:28:00

If you want user to save file in a fixed location, then simply display a form that allows to type a file name.

Thus you do code your own form and do whatever you want to do. This could be a lot of work if you want most of the functionnality of common dialogs.

In that case, your application would look obsolete next time Microsoft update the UI. Also user might not like it to behave somehow differently than the standard one.

The user can still move and rename manually files on the system. Thus in the end, it might be a lot of effort for marginal benefits.