Is it never possible to get the FullName from a file using Silverlight OpenFileDialog?

Question

I want to get the fullname from a file on Silverlight OpenFileDialog, when I try that, Silverlight throws me an error.

I saw there is an attribute on FullName saying it

Answer 1

The Silverlight OpenFileDialog behaves differently to the standard forms OFD for security reasons. If you retrieve the SelectedFile, it actually returns a FileDialogFileInfo object which contains the Name of the file, rather than a path to the file. When you think about it, this makes perfect sense - you don't want somebody writing a piece of malicious code that can get a handle into your filesystem.