WPF OpenFileDialog using MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) in c#

In my opinion this kind of things doesn't belong in to the ViewModel. It's View specific logic. The View alone handles user input and then sends it to the ViewModel. ViewModel never asks the View to do something. This would invert the dependency chain and couple the ViewModel to the View. The dependencies have to be like this: View --> ViewModel --> Model. The ViewModel doesn't even know about the type of views nor that there is a View at all.

You have to open the dialog from your view and then send the result to the view model. For this you could create a simple event handler in your code-behind and attach it to a button's click event. You take the picked file and use an ICommand to invoke e.g. an open file action. That's MVVM (or MVP). Separate the concerns of the views from your models.

MainWindow.xaml:

<Window x:Class="WpfOpenDialogExample.OpenFileDialogSample"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="OpenFileDialogSample" Height="300" Width="300">
    <Window.DataContext>
        <ViewModel />
    </Window.DataContext>

    <Grid>
        <Button Name="ShowFilePickerButton" Click="ShowFilePicker_OnClick" Content="Open file" />
    </Grid>
</Window>

MainWindow.xaml.cs:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows;
using Microsoft.Win32;

namespace WpfOpenDialogExample
{
    public partial class OpenFileDialogSample : Window
    {
        public OpenFileDialogSample()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void ShowFilePicker_OnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            var viewModel = this.DataContext as ViewModel;
            OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
            if(openFileDialog.ShowDialog() == true && viewModel.OpenFileCommand.CanExecute(openFileDialog.FileName))
            {
               viewModel.OpenFileCommand.Execute(openFileDialog.FileName);
            }
        }

        private void ShowFolderPicker_OnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            var viewModel = this.DataContext as ViewModel;
            FolderBrowserDialog openFolderDialog = new FolderBrowserDialog();
            if(openFolderDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResul.Ok && viewModel.OpenFolderCommand.CanExecute(openFolderDialog.SelectedPath ))
            {
               viewModel.OpenFolderCommand.Execute(openFolderDialog.SelectedPath );
            }
        }
    }
}

ViewModel.cs:

public ICommand OpenFileCommand { get => new RelayCommand(OpenFile, CanOpenFile); }  

private void OpenFile(string filePath)
{
   ...
}

private bool CanOpenFile(string filePath)
{
   return File.Exists(filePath);
}

public ICommand OpenFolderCommand { get => new RelayCommand(OpenFolder, CanOpenFolder); }

private void OpenFolder(string folderPath)
{
   ...
}

private bool CanOpenFolder(string folderPath)
{
   return Directory.Exists(filePath);
}

RelayCommand.cs:

using System;
using System.Windows.Input;

namespace WpfOpenDialogExample
{
  /// <summary>
  /// An implementation independent ICommand implementation.
  /// Enables instant creation of an ICommand without implementing the ICommand interface for each command.
  /// The individual Execute() an CanExecute() members are suplied via delegates.
  /// <seealso cref="System.Windows.Input.ICommand"/>
  /// </summary>
  /// <remarks>The type of <c>RelaisCommand</c> actually is a <see cref="System.Windows.Input.ICommand"/></remarks>
    public class RelayCommand : ICommand
    {
      /// <summary>
      /// Default constructor to declare the concrete implementation of Execute(object):void and CanExecute(object) : bool
      /// </summary>
      /// <param name="executeDelegate">Delegate referencing the execution context method. 
      /// Delegate signature: delegate(object):void</param>
      /// <param name="canExecuteDelegate">Delegate referencing the canExecute context method.
      /// Delegate signature: delegate(object):bool</param>
      public RelayCommand(Action<object> executeDelegate , Predicate<object> canExecuteDelegate)
      {
        this.executeDelegate = executeDelegate;
        this.canExecuteDelegate = canExecuteDelegate;
      }

      /// <summary>
      /// Invokes the custom <c>canExecuteDelegate</c> which should check wether the command can be executed.
      /// </summary>
      /// <param name="parameter">Optional parameter of type <see cref="System.Object"/></param>
      /// <returns>Expected to return tue, when the preconditions meet the requirements and therefore the command stored in <c>executeDelegate</c> can execute.
      /// Expected to return fals when command execution is not possible.</returns>
      public bool CanExecute(object parameter)
      {
        if (this.canExecuteDelegate != null)
        {
          return this.canExecuteDelegate(parameter);
        }
        return false;
      }

      /// <summary>
      /// Invokes the custom <c>executeDelegate</c>, which references the command to execute.
      /// </summary>
      /// <param name="parameter">Optional parameter of type <see cref="System.Object"/></param>
      public void Execute(object parameter)
      {
        if (this.executeDelegate != null)
          this.executeDelegate(parameter);
      }

      /// <summary>
      /// The event is triggered every time the conditions regarding the command have changed. This occures when <c>InvalidateRequerySuggested()</c> gets explicitly or implicitly called.
      /// Triggering this event usually results in an invokation of <c>CanExecute(object):bool</c> to check if the occured change has made command execution possible.
      /// The <see cref="System.Windows.Input.CommandManager"/> holds a weakrefernce to the observer.
      /// </summary>
      public event EventHandler CanExecuteChanged
      {
        add { CommandManager.RequerySuggested += value; }
        remove { CommandManager.RequerySuggested -= value; }
      }

      private readonly Action<object> executeDelegate;
      private readonly Predicate<object> canExecuteDelegate;
    }
}