UI.FileOpenDialog Choose a folder instead of a file

[GertjanvandenbroekVKAE]

I need to be able to designate 2 folders for importing and exporting activities. But the file dialog does not allow for me to select a folder... only files.

So how would I go about asking the user for a folder using the revitapi?

[jeremytammik · Accepted solution]

Use the .NET or Windows API instead.

I know that The Building Coder has implemented and documented such methods. Don't know where, though, off-hand.

By the way, similar questions have also been discussed right here in the past, e.g., 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/folderbrowserdialog-in-revit/m-p/8370066

Please always search before asking.

[GertjanvandenbroekVKAE]

I swear I did search for this topic before I created it. Probably just the wrong search terms.

Thanks for the suggestion though,I'll mark it as accepted.

But that folder browser dialog is all sorts of awful, isn't there a more elegant dialog option available?