How to capture files in a directory

I would like to use LabVIEW be able to browse to a desired directory and click a button that would grab all filenames of VIs in that directory (and subdirectories if a checkbox is selected) and place all those filenames into an array. I know how to do portions of this, but I'm not sure how to grab all the filenames. Can anyone offer suggestions?

The listbox function is perfect for this. If you have either 0 or more items or 1 or more items as the Selection Mode, then it will return an array that you can use with the Index Array function and the Item Names property node to get the selected values.
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