Prompt the User a OpenFileDialog then automatically saving the file in a different location (.net Winform)

Question

im implementing this tool that will enable the user to specify a certain excel file that i am parsing and doing some work with ... (Windows form application .net C#) i want to save, the file that the user is choosing(locally) using the openfiledialoge, automatically in a certain directory where the .exe file exists example ../excelfiles/

Answer 1

You don't offer enough details, but I'm guessing your are trying to do something like this:

using (OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog())
{
  if (ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
  {
    string parseResults = ParseThisFile(ofd.FileName);
    File.WriteAllText(Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath) +
                                            @"\excelfiles\" +
                                            Path.GetFileName(ofd.FileName),
                      parseResults);
  }
}

Note: no error checking.

Also, it probably isn't a good idea to save these parsed files in a subdirectory of the executable. You probably want to use Environment.SpecialFolder.etc for that.