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Truezplaya
Truezplaya

Reputation: 1313

Folder explorer options

I have recently been assigned a task which sounded relatively simple!

Upon attempting it became clear it wasn't as straight forward as i first imagined!!!

I am trying to download multiple files to one location on the users machine. They select these files from lists within a custom share-point web part. Thats the bit i have managed to get working! The downloading is done via WebClient (System.Net.WebClient)

I now want to allow the user to select a location on their local machine to download the files to.

I thought i would be able to use but after attempting this i realized i can only pick files :( in order to get the desired location which will confuse the user

I want something similar to the above but i only need it to return a path location like c:\Temp or any other location the user prefers on their local machine.

Could anyone suggest a control that could provide this functionality. It can also be a share-point control.

In the meantime I will be attempting Tree view as i have never used these before and these may have the power to do this from what i have read

Cheers

Truez

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 107

Answers (2)

Truezplaya
Truezplaya

Reputation: 1313

I ended up zipping the files in to one folder and passed the file to be downloaded through the browser! Thanks for your comments!

Upvotes: 0

Russ Clarke
Russ Clarke

Reputation: 17909

Unfortunately, you can't do this without some kind of active content, like a Flash control or spit activeX /spit. It seems strange at first, but you have to consider that this kind of functionality would let a site discover the structure of anyones storage devices; this is not 'a good thing'™

However, perhaps a different approach might solve the problem?

Why are you using WebClient, can't you provide the link to the client and let them choose their own download folder ?

Upvotes: 1

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