Browsing files in a folder

Question

Greetings! I am really new to C# and fairly new to programming itself aswell. Although i've got to know C# quite a bit now but mostly on the console program side of it. Now i'd like to get introduced to the windows environment better. I made myself a little picture / photo album browser where i choose a file with OpenFileDialog and it is shown in a picturebox - Ok this works like a charm. But it would be so much easier to browse pictures as a bunch not by opening them one at a time. So my problem is that i would love to do this so that i could choose a folder (with FolderBrowserDialog) and then i could browse through the images in that chosen folder using puttons like previous image and next image. How is this done? Anykind of help / hint for a solution is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! skinex

Chongo · Answer

You can load an array (ListDictionary) with a list of files with a certain extension from the folder so say *.jpeg or *.gif you can do this like: I think you will need the System.IO; DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(@C:\dir\images); FileInfo[] jpgfiles = dir.GetFiles(*.jpg); int position = jpgfiles.Length; foreach( FileInfo f in jpgfiles) { _name_list.Add(position f.Name); position--; } then you can use buttons to browse through the list.