How to Create a File Browser using Visual Basic VBasic. NETThis application is really basic but is pretty neat to make. This application will be able to browse through files on your computer and upon opening a file will display an output File Exists or File Not Found. At first the code may seem foreign, but I will add comments that help explain what the code is doing. Setting Up. If you have not done so already, set up an empty web site. Open visual studio and click on File New Project. Browser File Download Dialog Click Event In Vb' title='Browser File Download Dialog Click Event In Vb' />In an earlier article, I spoke about UDP and Visual Basic. In this article, I spoke about all the protocols that make the Internet what it is. Expand Other Languages Visual Basic, select Windows Forms Application, name the file Browse a File and click OK. Step One. You will see a blank form, lets add a text box and button to make this application function. Open the toolbox panel, grab a Text. Box item and place it on the form. Click on the text box and look in the properties window. Change its name to txt. File. Directory, as this text box will represent the file name directory. Now from the toolbox place a Button item on the form. The above ContentDisposition indicates to the browser that the server is trying to invoke a file download in the browser. The browser responds by opening up a. Generally, a download manager enables downloading of large files or multiples files in one session. Many web browsers. Visual Studio shortcut keys. Here is a handy reference that can make your. NET lifestyle a bit easier and more productive. The mustknow shortcut keys are Highlighted. This button will be the button that initiates the browsing for a file. In its properties, change the name to btn. Browse and change the text to Browse. Step Two. Double click on the Browse button to open the visual basic class of the form. By double clicking on the button, we create an event handler called btn. BrowseClick that handles code each time the button is pressed. All of the methods used in this code is from a class called Open. File. Dialog that prompts the user to open a file. I also took the liberty to add comments above the lines of code that explain what is happening line by line. Public Class Form. Private Sub btn. BrowseClickBy. Val sender As System. Object, By. Val e As System. Event. Args Handles btn. Browse. Click. Dim my. File. Dlog As New Open. File. Dialog. look for files in the c drive. File. Dlog. Initial. Directory c. File. Dlog. Filter All Files. Data Files dat File. Dlog. Filter. Index 2. Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box restores the current directory before closing. File. Dlog. Restore. Directory True. If my. File. Dlog. Show. Dialog. Dialog. Result. OK Then. If Dirmy. File. Dlog. File. Name lt Then. Msg. BoxFile Exists. File. Dlog. File. Name,. Msg. Box. Style. Information. Else. Msg. BoxFile Not Found,. Msg. Box. Style. Critical. End If. Adds the file directory to the text box. File. Directory. Text my. File. Dlog. File. Name. End Class. 12. Public. Class. Form. Private. Subbtn. BrowseClickBy. Valsender As. System. Object,By. Vale. As. System. Event. ArgsHandlesbtn. Browse. Click        Dimmy. File. Dlog As. New. Open. File. Dialog        look for files in the c drive        my. File. Dlog. Initial. Adobe Animation Software For Beginners there. Directoryc         specifies what type of data files to look for        my. File. Dlog. Filter All Files             Data Files File. Dlog. Filter. Index 2        Gets or sets a value indicating whether the dialog box restores the current directory before closing. File. Dlog. Restore. Directory True        seperates message outputs for files found or not found        If my. File. Dlog. Show. Dialog             Dialog. Result. OK Then            If Dirmy. File. Dlog. File. Name lt Then                Msg. BoxFile Exists                        my. File. Dlog. File. Name,                        Msg. Box. Style. Information            Else                Msg. BoxFile Not. Found,                       Msg. Box. Style. Critical            End. If        End. If        Adds the file directory to the text box        txt. File. Directory. Textmy. File. Dlog. File. Name    End. Sub. End. Class. Output. Run the application and click the Browse button. A file browser will open up in the local C drive and if you notice in the extension file next to the file name, we allow extensions of data files or all files. Open a file that exists and a message box will pop up saying File Exists with the file directory next to it, and if you click OK the file directory will appear on the text box in the form. This is a basic example of what can be done when working with file directories. Files can be uploaded and downloaded, so there are quite a bit of possibilities available. First get familiar with this tutorial and then go into the more advanced programming. Download Source Files.