OpenFileDialog causes Exception when clicking "New Folder" button or pasting files

Question

When I debug my application with Visual Studio 2013 C# (whether admin-mode or not) and use "Create new Folder"-button in the OpenFileDialog, it creates a new folder and causes either

• a SEHException, saying that an external component caused an exception
• or a System.AccessViolationException.

When I start the compiled application through explorer the exception doesn't appear.

Is there a way to fix this issue?

Thanks for your answers!

Answer 1

I guess when you are directly running the .exe it is running under your user account which has more privileges. But for direct debug it is running under VS host process which does not have elevated permissions to create folder.

So when you create the .exe make sure you run it with elevated privileges. So that you can create folders. Or catch exception and display message to user to run it as Administrator.