I'm trying to open up a file dialog so the user can select a file from the directory once the user clicks a button. From there, I want to send that file name to a textbox. But first, I need to be able to open up a dialog which I'm unable to do. This is what I have so far:

Private Sub cmdExc_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdExc.Click
        Dim myStream As Stream
        Dim openFileDialog1 As New OpenFileDialog

        openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "c:\"
        openFileDialog1.Filter = "txt files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*"
        openFileDialog1.FilterIndex = 2
        openFileDialog1.RestoreDirectory = True

        If openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
            myStream = openFileDialog1.OpenFile()
            If Not (myStream Is Nothing) Then
                   myStream.Close()
            End If
        End If
    End Sub

It keeps saying that Stream, OpenFileDialog, and DialogResult are undefined. Am I doing something wrong? I would appreciate it if someone could help me. Thanks.

This is just a guess, but looking at your MessageBox post I am going to assume that this is a web application.

The OpenFileDialog box is a Windows forms control. That's why you are getting the error about the OpenFileDialog and the DialogResult.

J

Yes, you are right. It is a web application. Is there any way I can get a dialog box for my web application? Thanks.

You can use an Input element.

<INPUT id="YourID" value="YourFileName" style="WIDTH: 317px; HEIGHT: 22px" type="file" size="33">

Look this up on a search engine to find out all attributes for this type of Input.

On a side note (and I am not trying to push you off to a different forum), you may get more responses if you post your topics about .aspx pages in the .aspx forums as opposed to general VB.Net.

J

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. But, I have a question regarding disabling it. Right now, it is disabled if the dropdownlist is not 2 and a button is clicked. If it is 2, then I want to enable it. So, by default it is disabled until 2 is selected. But I keep on getting this error:

document.form1.txtCvsFile is null or not an object

And here is my code:
function NewWindow()
{
if (document.getElementById("dlstep").value == "2")
     {
     document.form1.txtCvsFile.disabled = false
     }
return false;
     }

txtCvsFile is my file input element and dlstep is my dropdownlist. Can someone please tell me how to go about doing this? Thanks.

The only way I know of to get a dialog like you are talking about is with the html file upload control.
It puts a textbox and a browse button on the web page side-by-side, and the browse button puts up a dialog like you describe.

Internet browsers have a lot of protection built in to avoid the user's files being viewed by malicious web pages, which also prohibits the sort of thing that you are trying. (Security issues are starting to make me feel insecure!)

Try using the same method to get at the file input object:

getElementById("txtCvsFile")

Thank you for everyone's help.