Clearing Navigation History in RadFileDialogs Explorer Control

Updated on Sep 15, 2025

Environment

Product	Version
RadFileDialogs for WPF	2024.3.806

Description

How to clear the navigation history of the RadFileDialogs' ExplorerControl.

Solution

To clear the navigation history, you can subscribe to the Loaded event of the RadFileDialog or the ExplorerControl in order to access the HistoryNavigationPaneControl. Then, you can get the DirectoryHistory object and call its Clear method.

C#

	 private HistoryNavigationPaneControl historyNavigationPane;

	 private void ExplorerControl_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
	 {
		 this.historyNavigationPane = this.explorerControl.FindChildByType<HistoryNavigationPaneControl>();
	 }

	 public void ClearDirectoryHistory()
	 {
		 this.historyNavigationPane.DirectoryHistory.Clear();
	 }