VBScript File Open / Save As dialog Windows 7

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Wednesday, May 02, 2012 8:08 AM

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Does anyone know of the 3rd party app other than IE and Office apps for this? Perhaps, .net?
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012 1:36 PM

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Wait... I'm confused -- The Windows Open/Save dialog boxes are internal to Windows. Are you wanting to know how to invoke one from VBscript? Or PowerShell perhaps?

A very basic couple of examples are as follows:

PowerShell:
```
$save = New-Object -TypeName Windows.Forms.SaveFileDialog
$save.ShowDialog()
```
VBScript:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4386124/how-can-i-use-the-common-save-as-dialog-from-vbscript
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012 5:03 PM

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Common dialogs are not longer available in Vista and later systems.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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