After a lot of thought and consideration, and Google-ing, I'm hell-bent on creating my own SaveFileDialog.
But I do not know where to start and since I haven't seen anything around the web, I would like to know if anybody has done this before, and what I should look into, or how I might go about doing this?
I am wanting to build a new SaveFileDialog because I feel the need (or want) to add more functionality to it. And I also feel that if I build a new one, I'll learn alot more about C# and how the SaveFileDialog works behind the scenes
To be quite honest, I don't like the current SaveFileDialog (Yes, it does the job) but I really do want to add extra functionality to it.
Ah, I don't think that there are any restrictions. I can't say for sure because I'm new to this and don't know what is required or...
The SaveFileDialog is part of the operating system and will actually look different on different versions of the OS. There are a lot of ways to customize it, but that is not so easy in a Windows Forms project. It can still be done, but you have to hook into the native Win32 API. If you simply want to play around with Windows Forms and C# you can go ahead and design a form that looks like a SaveFileDialog but you will miss all the goodness of the native dialog.
You can read more about the common open and save as dialog boxes on MSDN, but if you are used to Windows Forms programming you may feel alienated by the native Win32 API. Window Vista has introduced a new common item dialog and the COM based API makes it easier to use in a Windows Forms application.