---
title: "Showing the \"Browse For Folder\" dialog"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/1/showing-the-quotbrowse-for-folderquot-dialog.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/1/showing-the-quotbrowse-for-folderquot-dialog.html"
published: "2003-09-01T19:36:00"
updated: "2003-09-01T19:36:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Another one from Derek Stone . Boy this guy seems to have all the answers for me today. This time it's a simple class that shows the “Browse for folder” dialog in VB.Net. It uses the…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Showing the "Browse For Folder" dialog

By Roy Osherove September 1, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 1, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Another one from [Derek Stone](http://www.elitevb.com/content/author.aspx?id=3). Boy this guy seems to have all the answers for me today. This time it's [a simple class that shows the “Browse for folder” dialog](http://www.elitevb.com/content/01,0077,01/01.aspx) in VB.Net. It uses the System.Windows.Forms.Design.FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser class to do its magic, meaning it's clean and simple.

Still, I'm not sure where I've heard this, but I think MS discourages the use of this class, because it's meant for internal designers use only? Can anyone who knows comment on this?

**Update:**

I was feeling like a total idiot last night. Here are all those people talking about how the **FolderBrowserDialog** class was added in v1.1, yet even though I have vs.Net 2003 installed, I could not for the life of me find it!.  Really. I tried all sorts of winforms projects but it just was not there. Then I came to work this morning and opened vs.net 2003 here, and voilà! it's right there in front of me. Anyone knows what's going on here?

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