.net standard microsoft.win32 does not contain openfiledialog()

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I am trying to open the file dialog in my WPF application which is a .Net Core app and uses a .Net Standard Library where all my code lives. However, when I tried the OpenFileDialog() method which inherits from Microsoft.Win32 namespace, it says "the name OpenDialog does not exist in the current context" and that is the recurring error even after adding the namespace manually. However. when I tried this in my .netcoreapp, it works just fine. Bringing me to the conclusion that this is probably a problem with .netstandard only. My question is what is the best fix to this, I cannot put the code in my .NetCore WPF app, so the only other alternative is to create a new project for the sole purpose of opening the file dialog which I find a bit too much. Please does anyone have any alternatives, or perhaps I am doing things wrong. I would appreciate all your contributions.

What I have tried:

I tried downloading Microsoft.Win32 from nuget package manager but no luck

Posted 14-Apr-21 4:37am

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Updated 14-Apr-21 5:06am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2021-04-14T05:06:00

Looking at the "Applies to" section in the documentation, this dialog was never defined for .NET Standard:

OpenFileDialog Class (Microsoft.Win32) | Microsoft Docs[^]:
Applies to:

.NET 5.0, 6.0 preview 3
.NET Core 3.0, 3.1
.NET Framework 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8

As further confirmation, if you select any version of .NET Standard in the "version" list on the left, you will get a message telling you that the requested page is not available.