Nothing says wasted effort like implementing your own custom open/save dialog boxes. Don't get me wrong, it might make sense if you need to add special features that don't exist in the standard ones, but what amazing feature do you see in this dialog from SQL Server 2005?

I can tell you the amazing feature you don't see in the dialog: MY SECOND HARD DRIVE! That's right, SQL Server 2005 refuses to let me do anything with the other drive. It doesn't even think another drive exists.

So please, unless you plan on adding to the feature set of the standard open/save dialogs, don't implement your own. And make sure to test on at least one machine with multiple hard drives.

Posted by JoshC at January 28, 2007 12:36 PM

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