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    <p>I wrote about it on my blog a long time ago, WPF's support for common file dialogs is really bad (or at least is was in 3.5 I didn't check in version 4) - but it's easy to work around it.</p> <p>You need to add the correct manifest to your application - that will give you a modern style message boxes and folder browser (WinForms FolderBrowserDialog) but not WPF file open/save dialogs, this is described in those 3 posts (if you don't care about the explanation and only want the solution go directly to the 3rd):</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.nbdtech.com/blog/archive/2008/05/28/Why-am-I-Getting-Old-Style-File-Dialogs-and-Message.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Why am I Getting Old Style File Dialogs and Message Boxes with WPF</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nbdtech.com/blog/archive/2008/06/08/Will-Setting-a-Manifest-Solve-My-WPF-Message-Box-Style.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Will Setting a Manifest Solve My WPF Message Box Style Problems?</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nbdtech.com/blog/archive/2008/06/16/The-Application-Manifest-Needed-for-XP-and-Vista-Style-File.aspx" rel="noreferrer">The Application Manifest Needed for XP and Vista Style File Dialogs and Message Boxes with WPF</a></li> </ul> <p>Fortunately, the open/save dialogs are very thin wrappers around the Win32 API that is easy to call with the right flags to get the Vista/7 style (after setting the manifest)</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.nbdtech.com/Blog/archive/2008/07/15/Vista-style-open-and-save-dialogs-with-WPF-without-using.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Vista style open and save dialogs with WPF (without using the Vista bridge sample)</a></li> </ul>
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