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Open File Dialog
Updated on Sep 15, 2025
RadCloudUpload allows you to open a custom dialog to browse the files for upload. To do this set the CreateOpenFileDialog property. It is of type Func<Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog> and can be used to provide a function that returns an OpeFileDialog instance. This is useful to customize the dialog settings. For example, to restrict users to upload certain type of files.
Example 1: Defining the cloud upload control
XAML
<telerik:RadCloudUpload x:Name="RadCloudUpload" />
Example 2: Setting CreateOpenFileDialog. The function returns a dialog with a custom filter that allows only text files.
C#
this.RadCloudUpload.CreateOpenFileDialog = () =>
{
OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();
ofd.Filter = "txt files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*";
return ofd;
};