Does WPF have a native file dialog?

Question

Under System.Windows.Controls, I can see a PrintDialog However, I can\'t seem to find a native FileDialog. Do I need to create a refe

Answer 1

Thanks to Gregor S for a neat solution.

In Visual Studio 2010 it seems to crash the designer however - so I've tweaked the code in the OpenFileDialogEx class. The XAML code stays the same:

public class OpenFileDialogEx
{
    public static readonly DependencyProperty FilterProperty =
        DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(
            "Filter",
            typeof(string),
            typeof(OpenFileDialogEx),
            new PropertyMetadata("All documents (.*)|*.*", (d, e) => AttachFileDialog((TextBox)d, e))
        );


    public static string GetFilter(UIElement element)
    {
        return (string)element.GetValue(FilterProperty);
    }

    public static void SetFilter(UIElement element, string value)
    {
        element.SetValue(FilterProperty, value);
    }

    private static void AttachFileDialog(TextBox textBox, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs args)
    {
        var textBoxParent = textBox.Parent as Panel;
        if (textBoxParent == null)
        {
            Debug.Print("Failed to attach File Dialog Launching Button Click Handler to Textbox parent panel!");
            return;
        }


        textBoxParent.Loaded += delegate
        {
            var button = textBoxParent.Children.Cast