Posted July 01, 2006 12:00AM by Robert Smith
Tagged: Coding, CSharp
Neat how MS breaks the old rules of 8.3 with all of the dlls of the Framework, isn't it? The file names started out as direct representations of namespace hierarchies but as with all good intentions that didn't last long; We did however get the thumbs-up on it being a big-company standard to do XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX....XXX files naming to make the files themselves more intutitive. Little sticky point is how to get the FileSaveDialog to save the darned extended extensions. If you just... using (SaveFileDialog fo = new SaveFileDialog())
{
fo.Filter = "PurchaseOrder xml (*.po.xml)|*.po.xml|xml|*.xml";
fo.FilterIndex = 0;
fo.OverwritePrompt = true;
if (fo.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
System.IO.File.WriteAllText(fo.FileName, _workingPO.GetXML(), Encoding.UTF8);
}
}
... you just get the last part of the extended extension. So you don't get to type in "testOne" and save a file named "testOne.po.xml". Darn. The trick is easy enough though... just add in the DefaultExtension property... using (SaveFileDialog fo = new SaveFileDialog())
{
fo.Filter = "PurchaseOrder xml (*.po.xml)|*.po.xml|xml|*.xml";
fo.FilterIndex = 0;
fo.DefaultExt = ".po.xml";
fo.OverwritePrompt = true;
if (fo.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
System.IO.File.WriteAllText(fo.FileName, _workingPO.GetXML(), Encoding.UTF8);
}
}
... if the dialog is set to filter index 0 you get your correct "testOne.po.xml" file name. And, luckily, if the user picks filter index 1 the standard "testOne.xml" is created.
Hope that helps. Robert Smith
Kirkland, WA |