hey guys i have a vb.net application in which he user has to select a file from his machine in order to do some specific work... lets say the path for this file is
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Dump\Database1.dump

i want to return

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Dump
how can i do that?
thanks in advance

If the user is selecting the file, making it so that you get the fully-qualified file-locating string, you can search from the right to find the 1st “\” and return all up to that.

There are controls that let you select a folder graphically, so there would be no file part.

You can use the file-system functionality and open the file as an object, and get that object's path property.

You could restrict your users to just the root folder . . . (Kidding . . .)