DotNetBrowser

Note: Advice in this article will only work for DotNetBrowser 1.
See the corresponding article for DotNetBrowser 2 here.

Using DotNetBrowser DialogHandler API you can handle the situation when web page needs to display File Open dialog (e.g. when the user clicks File Input element on a web form). Using this API you can display your own File Open dialog or suppress the dialog at all and provide the path to a file program.

Note: By default DotNetBrowser displays standard OpenFileChooser dialog.

The following sample demonstrates how to modify this logic:

C#

using DotNetBrowser;
using DotNetBrowser.Events;
using DotNetBrowser.WPF;
using Microsoft.Win32;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;

namespace FileUploadSample
{
    class Program
    {
        public class WindowMain : Window
        {
            private WPFBrowserView browserView;

            public WindowMain()
            {
                Browser browser = BrowserFactory.Create();
                browserView = new WPFBrowserView(browser);

                browser.DialogHandler = new SampleDialogHandler(this);

                Content = browserView;

                Width = 1024;
                Height = 768;
                this.Loaded += WindowMain_Loaded;
            }

            void WindowMain_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
            {
                browserView.Browser.LoadHTML("http://jkorpela.fi/forms/file.html");
            }

            public class SampleDialogHandler : WPFDefaultDialogHandler
            {
                private Window windowMain;

                public SampleDialogHandler(Window windowMain) : base(windowMain)
                {
                    // TODO: Complete member initialization
                    this.windowMain = windowMain;
                }

                public override CloseStatus OnFileChooser(FileChooserParams parameters)
                {
                    CloseStatus returnValue = CloseStatus.CANCEL;
        
                    bool isOpenMode = parameters.Mode == FileChooserMode.Open;
                    bool isOpenMultipleMode = parameters.Mode == FileChooserMode.OpenMultiple;
                    if (isOpenMode || isOpenMultipleMode)
                    {
                        Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke((Action)(() =>
                        {
                            OpenFileDialog fileChooser = new OpenFileDialog();
                            fileChooser.Multiselect = isOpenMultipleMode;
                            fileChooser.Title = "Open";

                            fileChooser.FileOk += delegate
                            {
                                if (isOpenMultipleMode)
                                {
                                    string[] selectedFiles = fileChooser.FileNames;
                                    parameters.SelectedFiles = String.Join("|", selectedFiles);
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    parameters.SelectedFiles = fileChooser.FileName;
                                }
                                returnValue = CloseStatus.OK;
                            };

                            fileChooser.ShowDialog(windowMain);
                        }));
                    }

                    return returnValue;
                }
            }
        
            [STAThread]
            public static void Main()
            {
                Application app = new Application();

                WindowMain wnd = new WindowMain();
                app.Run(wnd);

                var browser = wnd.browserView.Browser;
                wnd.browserView.Dispose();
                browser.Dispose();
            }
        }
    }
}

VB.NET

Imports System.Windows
Imports DotNetBrowser
Imports DotNetBrowser.WPF
Imports Microsoft.Win32

Module Module1
    Public Class WindowMain
        Inherits Window

        Public Dim browserView As WPFBrowserView

        Public Sub New()

            Dim browser As Browser = BrowserFactory.Create()
            browserView = New WPFBrowserView(browser)

            browser.DialogHandler = New SampleDialogHandler(Me)

            Content = browserView

            Width = 1024
            Height = 768
            AddHandler Me.Loaded, AddressOf WindowMain_Loaded
        End Sub

        Private Sub WindowMain_Loaded(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs)
            browserView.Browser.LoadURL("http://jkorpela.fi/forms/file.html")
        End Sub

        Public Class SampleDialogHandler
            Inherits WPFDefaultDialogHandler

            Private windowMain As Window

            Public Sub New(windowMain As Window)
                MyBase.New(windowMain)
                Me.windowMain = windowMain
            End Sub

            Public Overloads Function OnFileChooser(ByVal parameters As FileChooserParams) As CloseStatus
                Dim returnValue As CloseStatus = CloseStatus.CANCEL
                Dim isOpenMode As Boolean = parameters.Mode = FileChooserMode.Open
                Dim isOpenMultipleMode As Boolean = parameters.Mode = FileChooserMode.OpenMultiple

                If isOpenMode Or isOpenMultipleMode Then
                    System.Windows.Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke(Sub()
                        Dim fileChooser As OpenFileDialog = New OpenFileDialog()
                        fileChooser.Multiselect = isOpenMultipleMode
                        fileChooser.Title = "Open"

                        AddHandler fileChooser.FileOk, sub()

                            If isOpenMultipleMode Then
                                Dim selectedFiles As String() = fileChooser.FileNames
                                parameters.SelectedFiles = String.Join("|", selectedFiles)
                            Else
                                parameters.SelectedFiles = fileChooser.FileName
                            End If

                            returnValue = CloseStatus.OK
                        End sub

                        fileChooser.ShowDialog(windowMain)
                    End Sub)
                End If

                Return returnValue
            End Function
        End Class
    End Class

    <STAThread>
    Sub Main()
        Dim app As Application = New Application()

        Dim wnd As WindowMain = New WindowMain()
        app.Run(wnd)

        Dim browser = wnd.browserView.Browser
        wnd.browserView.Dispose()
        browser.Dispose()
    End Sub
End Module