Select Folder-Dialog

by ps1Apr 1, 2009

Want to provide your users with a neat dialog to select folders? Simply use a COM object called Shell.Application, which provides the BrowseForFolder method:

function Select-Folder($message='Select a folder', $path = 0) {
  $object = New-Object -comObject Shell.Application

  $folder = $object.BrowseForFolder(0, $message, 0, $path)
  if ($folder -ne $null) {
    $folder.self.Path
  }
}

Select-Folder
Select-Folder 'Select the folder you want!'
Select-Folder -mess 'Select some folder!' -path $env:windir

Select Folder-Dialog

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