fetching the name of a file and displaying it on the title window

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I am trying to make a media player like VLC in C#. I want to display the name of the file on the title window which is currently loaded. I don't know how to do it. I have searched a lot about it but i was not able to get the right answer from the links Set a taskbar text different from the Window title in wpf and can I add text box beside the title of WPF window.

I have also problem in fetching the name of the file. when fetching the name of the file, i am getting the whole path not only the name of the file. I am not getting the idea from the link How to get only filenames within a directory using c#?

 mediaElement.Source = new Uri(loadfile.FileName);
 this.Title =loadfile.FileName;

now the file name id not the file name but the complete path. How to get only the name of the file. Any help is appreciable.

Have you seen http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8060161/how-to-change-xaml-page-title-dynamically-in-wpf ? — Trey Mack, Jul 03 '15 at 05:36
@tmack but what about the path it is fetching. i want to fetch only the name of the file not the whole path. — , Jul 03 '15 at 05:47
var fi = new FileInfo("path/to/file.ext"); string filename = fi.Name; — Trey Mack, Jul 03 '15 at 05:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '15 at 05:44

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You can bind window title to a property in code behind. for instance :

<Window title={Binding ToMyProperty} /> etc...

answered Jul 03 '15 at 05:44

Marcin

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 03 '15 at 13:10

To get the file name from a file path, you can use the Path.GetFileName method which is in System.IO namespace. This will return the file name from the provided path.

I have modified the example you provided, to do what you described:

mediaElement.Source = new Uri(loadfile.FileName);
this.Title = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(loadfile.FileName);

Hope that helps.

fetching the name of a file and displaying it on the title window

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