title: How can I get a URL entered into WinForms OpenFileDialog?
body: <p>If a user enters a URL into a Windows Forms OpenFileDialog then the dialog box (on more modern versions) of Windows will download the file and open it from a temporary directory.  Is there any way to get at the entered URL?  Could the new-fangled IFileDialog help?</p>
  
  <p>Please note that I am not looking for the file:// equivalent of a local file. This is for when the user enters the location of something on the Internet  into the file dialog.  e.g. <a href="http://example.com/path" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://example.com/path</a>.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19809936/url-as-filename-in-openfileidialog-c-sharp">This</a> asks essentially the same question, but didn't get a useful answer, perhaps because he asks that the result appear in the FileName property.</p>