SaveFileDialog

30 Mar 2005 7:15 PM

John

In my VB .Net WinForm app, SaveFileDialog gives me an error msg
"C:\MyFile.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it?"

What I need to do is to append something to an existing file, so I want to
avoid this warning msg. I included "SaveFileDialog.CheckFileExists = False"
in my code, but the warning msg keeps showing up.

Please help, thanks.

30 Mar 2005 7:39 PM

Crouchie1998

Don't use the save file dialog & use stream writer

Dim sw As New IO.StreamWriter(C:\SomeFile.txt", True)

sw.WriteLine("You Text Here")

sw.Flush()

sw.Cloase()

30 Mar 2005 7:56 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"John" <J***@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> In my VB .Net WinForm app, SaveFileDialog gives me an error msg
> "C:\MyFile.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it?"

I am not able to repro this behavior with .NET 1.1, Windows XP Professional
SP2 with a SaveFileDialog placed on a form.

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30 Mar 2005 8:34 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

Errata:

>> In my VB .Net WinForm app, SaveFileDialog gives me an error msg
>> "C:\MyFile.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it?"
>
> I am not able to repro this behavior with .NET 1.1, Windows XP
> Professional SP2 with a SaveFileDialog placed on a form.

Sorry, I had a bug in my code which leaded to wrong results. The
'OverwritePrompt' property of 'SaveFileDialog' is set to 'True' by default.
By changing its value 'False' prior to showing the dialog the messagebox is
not shown.

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30 Mar 2005 8:11 PM

John

Solved, thanks.

SaveFileDialog.OverwritePrompt = False

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"John" wrote:

> In my VB .Net WinForm app, SaveFileDialog gives me an error msg
> "C:\MyFile.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it?"
>
> What I need to do is to append something to an existing file, so I want to
> avoid this warning msg. I included "SaveFileDialog.CheckFileExists = False"
> in my code, but the warning msg keeps showing up.
>
> Please help, thanks.
>

30 Mar 2005 8:11 PM

Samuel R. Neff

Set the OverwritePrompt property to false.

HTH,

Sam

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:15:07 -0800, "John"
<J***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>In my VB .Net WinForm app, SaveFileDialog gives me an error msg
>"C:\MyFile.txt already exists. Do you want to replace it?"
>
>What I need to do is to append something to an existing file, so I want to
>avoid this warning msg. I included "SaveFileDialog.CheckFileExists = False"
>in my code, but the warning msg keeps showing up.
>
>Please help, thanks.
>

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