Select either a file or folder from the same dialog in .NET

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Technically, it is possible. The shell dialog used by FolderBrowseDialog has the ability to return both files and folders. Unfortunately, that capability isn’t exposed in .NET. Not even reflection can poke the required option flag.

To make it work, you’d have to P/Invoke SHBrowseForFolder() with the BIF_BROWSEINCLUDEFILES flag turned on in BROWSEINFO.ulFlags (value = 0x4000). The P/Invoke is gritty, it is best to copy and paste the code from another source or the FolderBrowseDialog class itself with Reflector’s help.

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