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A Windows Explorer in a user control

By , 15 Mar 2007
 

Sample Image - ExplorerTree.jpg

Introduction

Idea: Functionality of windows explorer wrapped up as a control. User can browse through all the folders in the computer including network folders and select the path.

The Long story, while working on a photo editing software i frequently needed to test different images from different folders. i have to call an open dialog then browse for the folder and then select the file. 4 clicks well not too much but if you have to test 10 images in the same folder same process have to be repeated for all of them, more if you have 10 images in different folders well 10 X 4 clicks, i call it Multiple Mouse Clicks For Single Operation (MMCFSO). Explains why the whole software world relates reducing MMCFSO with the ease of use.

MMCFSO is not just needed for a imaging application. Where ever you have to select multiple files from multiple destinations you need this. So i think an effort to create a windows explorer user control is worth it. Here is the result.

To hold your interest, here is how the ExplorerTree control looks like.

A UserControl is an object which can display and accept information from a user. It usually fulfills a specific functions of input or output. What is our ExplorerTree control going to do ?

1. Display a treeview of all the folders like Windows Explorer
2. It will take user input as mouse click and expand the folder
3. Output will be the path of the current selection

The target was to create a user friendly control which simulates windows explorer with the following

  • Rich functionality: It should be rich in functionality and have all the capabilities of a windows explorer
    • Browse all possible folders my documents, desktop, network neighbourhood etc
    • Go, up, back, next features like Windows explorer
    • Enable /disable the folders he wants to see aka My Documents/ My Network/My Favorites etc
  • Nice user interface: It should look professional and neat
  • Reusability: The feature should work as a control user can drop it in any form and have a readymade functionality of a windows explorer.
  • Extensibility: User should be able to add shortcut to frequently used folders

Without any furthur ado, lets jump into how each of these targets are met.

THE UPDATE

Customizable Toolbar and addressbar

updated

Functionality

Features

  • Create the explorer like tree-view for all the folders
  • Add shortcut to frequently used folders , this is also to extend the feature of ExplorerTree
  • The "Go" button, "Go Back", "Go Forward" and "Go Up" are self explainatory and simulates the Windows Explorer functions
  • Refresh will re-create the explorer tree
  • Home will set the current directory to the executable path of ExplorerTree

Properties

  • Selected Path is the current selection by the user and also the output of the ExplorerTree control
  • ShowMyDocuments
  • ShowMyFavorites
  • ShowMyNetwork

Events

  • PathChangedEvent is fired when ever the path of the ExplorerTree is changed

The Code behind : explore my computer

string [] drives = Environment.GetLogicalDrives();
foreach(string drive in drives)
{

    nodeDrive = new TreeNode();
    nodeDrive.Tag = drive;

    nodeDrive.Text = drive ;

    //Determine icon to display by drive
    switch(Win32.GetDriveType(drive))
    {
        case 2:
            nodeDrive.ImageIndex = 17;
            nodeDrive.SelectedImageIndex  = 17;
            break;
        case 3:
            nodeDrive.ImageIndex = 0;
            nodeDrive.SelectedImageIndex  = 0;
            break;
        case 4:
            nodeDrive.ImageIndex = 8;
            nodeDrive.SelectedImageIndex = 8;
            break;
        case 5:
            nodeDrive.ImageIndex = 7;
            nodeDrive.SelectedImageIndex = 7;
            break;
        default:
            nodeDrive.ImageIndex = 0;
            nodeDrive.SelectedImageIndex = 0;
            break;
    }

    nodemyC.Nodes.Add(nodeDrive);
    nodeDrive.EnsureVisible();
    tvwMain.Refresh(); 
    try
    {
        //add dirs under drive
        if (Directory.Exists (drive))
        {
            foreach(string dir in Directory.GetDirectories(drive))
            {
                dir2 = dir;
                node = new TreeNode();
                node.Tag = dir;
                node.Text = dir.Substring(dir.LastIndexOf(@"\") + 1);
                node.ImageIndex = 1;
                nodeDrive.Nodes.Add(node);
            }
        }

    }
    catch(Exception)    //error just add blank dir
    {
    }
    nodemyC.Expand(); 
}

The Code behind : explore my folders

    if (ShowMyDocuments) 
    {
        nodemd = new TreeNode();
        nodemd.Tag = Environment.GetFolderPath(
                     Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
        nodemd.Text = "My Documents";
        nodemd.ImageIndex = 9;
        nodemd.SelectedImageIndex = 9;
        nodeD.Nodes.Add(nodemd);
        FillFilesandDirs(nodemd);
    }
    
    if (ShowMyNetwork) 
    {
        nodemyN = new TreeNode();
        nodemyN.Tag = "My Network Places";
        nodemyN.Text = "My Network Places";
        nodemyN.ImageIndex = 13;
        nodemyN.SelectedImageIndex = 13;
        nodeD.Nodes.Add(nodemyN);
        nodemyN.EnsureVisible();

        nodeEN = new TreeNode();
        nodeEN.Tag = "Entire Network";
        nodeEN.Text = "Entire Network";
        nodeEN.ImageIndex = 14;
        nodeEN.SelectedImageIndex = 14;
        nodemyN.Nodes.Add(nodeEN);

        nodeNN = new TreeNode();
        nodeNN.Tag = "Network Node";
        nodeNN.Text = "Network Node";
        nodeNN.ImageIndex = 15;
        nodeNN.SelectedImageIndex = 15;
        nodeEN.Nodes.Add(nodeNN);
        nodeEN.EnsureVisible();
    }

    if (ShowMyFavorites) 
    {
        nodemf = new TreeNode();
        nodemf.Tag = Environment.GetFolderPath(
                     Environment.SpecialFolder.Favorites);
        nodemf.Text = "My Favorites";
        nodemf.ImageIndex = 26;
        nodemf.SelectedImageIndex = 26;
        nodeD.Nodes.Add(nodemf);
        FillFilesandDirs(nodemf);
    }

The Go Back and Go Forward buttons are handled using a listview as shown below, the selected is the current path and go back will just move the cursor to one up and go next to one down.

The Code behind : Go Back and Go Forward 

    
private void UpdateListGoBack() 
{    
 if ((listView1.Items.Count >0)&&
     (String.Compare(listView1.Items[0].SubItems[1].Text,"Selected")==0))
        return;
     int i=0;
    for (i = 0;i< listView1.Items.Count;i++)
    {
        if (String.Compare(listView1.Items[i].SubItems[1].Text,"Selected")==0)
        {
            if (i != 0)
            {
                listView1.Items[i - 1].SubItems[1].Text = "Selected";
                txtPath.Text =listView1.Items[i - 1].Text;
            }
        }
        if (i != 0)
        {
            listView1.Items[i].SubItems[1].Text = " -/- ";
        }
    }
    }
private void UpdateListGoFwd()
{
    if ((listView1.Items.Count >0) && 
        (String.Compare(
         listView1.Items[listView1.Items.Count -1 ].SubItems[1].Text, 
         "Selected")==0))
        return;
    int i=0;
    for (i = listView1.Items.Count-1;i >= 0;i--)
    {
        if (String.Compare(listView1.Items[i].SubItems[1].Text,"Selected")==0)
        {
            if (i != listView1.Items.Count) 
            {
                listView1.Items[i + 1].SubItems[1].Text = "Selected";
                txtPath.Text =listView1.Items[i + 1].Text;   
            }
        }

        if (i != listView1.Items.Count-1)
            listView1.Items[i].SubItems[1].Text = " -/- ";
    }
}

Update list function : Go Back and Go Forward 

    
private void updateList(string f)
{
    int i=0;
    ListViewItem listviewitem;        // Used for creating listview items.

    int icount =0;
    UpdateListAddCurrent();
    icount = listView1.Items.Count + 1;
    try
    {
        if (listView1.Items.Count> 0)
        {    
            if (String.Compare(listView1.Items[listView1.Items.Count-1].Text, f)==0)
            {
                return;
            }
        }
    
        for (i = 0;i < listView1.Items.Count;i++)
        {
            listView1.Items[i].SubItems[1].Text = " -/- ";
        }
        listviewitem = new ListViewItem(f);
        listviewitem.SubItems.Add("Selected");
        listviewitem.Tag = f;
        this.listView1.Items.Add(listviewitem);
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
    MessageBox.Show(e.Message);   
    }
}

Explore Network Places

When i started porting one of my old existing Visual Basic Server enumeration function for the network places i came across a brilliant article by Rob Manderson here , He had ported successfully NETRESOURCE class in c sharp. I have used his class to furthur get all the different kinds of network resources and shared folders in the systematic way, how Windows explorer does it. His article actually helped me to do what i wanted to do without worrying about the enumeration process.

    
ServerEnum servers = new ServerEnum(ResourceScope.RESOURCE_GLOBALNET,
    ResourceType.RESOURCETYPE_DISK, 
    ResourceUsage.RESOURCEUSAGE_ALL, 
    ResourceDisplayType.RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_SERVER,pS);


foreach    (string    s1 in servers)
{
    string s2="";


    if((s1.Length <6)||(String.Compare(s1.Substring(s1.Length-6,6),"-share")!=0))
    {
        s2 = s1;//.Substring(s1.IndexOf("\\",2));
        nodeNN = new TreeNode();
        nodeNN.Tag =  s2;
        nodeNN.Text = s2.Substring(2) ;
        nodeNN.ImageIndex = 12;
        nodeNN.SelectedImageIndex = 12;
        n.Nodes.Add(nodeNN);
        foreach    (string    s1node in servers)
        {
            if (s1node.Length >6)
            {
                if(String.Compare(s1node.Substring(s1node.Length-6,6),"-share")==0)
                {
                    if (s2.Length <=s1node.Length )
                    {

        try
            {
            if (String.Compare(s1node.Substring(0, 
                       s2.Length+1),s2 + @"\")==0)  
                {
                nodeNNode = new TreeNode();
                nodeNNode.Tag =  s1node.Substring(0,s1node.Length -6);
                nodeNNode.Text = 
                 s1node.Substring(s2.Length+1,s1node.Length -s2.Length-7) ;
                nodeNNode.ImageIndex = 28;
                nodeNNode.SelectedImageIndex = 28;
                nodeNN.Nodes.Add(nodeNNode);
                }
            }
            catch(Exception)
            {}
        }
        }
        }
    }
    }

}

Enumerate network servers

This function basically creates the tree nodes of the network places, and decides which all network resources are the domains and which all the shared folders under that domain.

private void EnumerateServers(NETRESOURCE pRsrc, 
     ResourceScope scope, ResourceType type, 
     ResourceUsage usage, ResourceDisplayType displayType, 
     string kPath)
{
uint        bufferSize = 16384;
IntPtr        buffer    = Marshal.AllocHGlobal((int) bufferSize);
IntPtr        handle = IntPtr.Zero;
ErrorCodes    result;
uint        cEntries = 1;
bool serverenum = false;

result = WNetOpenEnum(scope, type, usage, pRsrc, out handle);

if (result == ErrorCodes.NO_ERROR)
{
    do
    {
        result = WNetEnumResource(handle, ref cEntries, buffer, 
                                  ref bufferSize);

        if ((result == ErrorCodes.NO_ERROR))
        {
            Marshal.PtrToStructure(buffer, pRsrc);

 if(String.Compare(kPath,"")==0)
  {
  if ((pRsrc.dwDisplayType==displayType) || 
      (pRsrc.dwDisplayType == ResourceDisplayType.RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_DOMAIN))
  aData.Add(pRsrc.lpRemoteName + "-" + pRsrc.dwDisplayType );

 if ((pRsrc.dwUsage&ResourceUsage.RESOURCEUSAGE_CONTAINER ) == 
                    ResourceUsage.RESOURCEUSAGE_CONTAINER )
      {    
       if ((pRsrc.dwDisplayType== displayType))
         {
           EnumerateServers(pRsrc, scope, type, usage, displayType,kPath);
           
          }
               
        }
    }
    else
    {
        if (pRsrc.dwDisplayType    == displayType)
        {
            aData.Add(pRsrc.lpRemoteName);
            EnumerateServers(pRsrc, scope,type, usage, displayType,kPath);
            //return;
            serverenum = true;
        }
        if (!serverenum)
        {
            if (pRsrc.dwDisplayType == 
                  ResourceDisplayType.RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_SHARE)
            {
                aData.Add(pRsrc.lpRemoteName + "-share");
            }
        }
        else
        {
            serverenum =false;
        }
 if((kPath.IndexOf(pRsrc.lpRemoteName)>=0)||
    (String.Compare(pRsrc.lpRemoteName, 
     "Microsoft Windows Network")==0))
        {
            EnumerateServers(pRsrc, scope, type, usage, displayType,kPath);
            //return;
            
        }

    }
    }            
        
        }
        else if    (result    != ErrorCodes.ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS)
            break;
    } while    (result    != ErrorCodes.ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS);

    WNetCloseEnum(handle);
}

Marshal.FreeHGlobal((IntPtr) buffer);
}

User Interface

About the user interface how to give it a professional touch. First thing is to create an icon for the control which will be displayed in the toolbox as shown below


Add a 16 x 16 gif image tree.gif here in the project and change its property BUILD ACTION = Embedded Resource and add the following

[ToolboxBitmapAttribute(typeof(WindowsExplorer.ExplorerTree), 
          "tree.gif"),DefaultEvent("PathChanged")    ] 

public class ExplorerTree : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl
{

Reusability

Any user control created in .Net is reusable in the sense that , once you compile it as a dll file , you can add it in the toolbox as shown in the figure below , and that control can be used with VisualBasic.Net or C# or any other .net interoperable language

You can create as many instances of the user control as shown below
4 ExplorerTree control with different properties, can you SPOT the difference

Extensibility

Now the most important part, How to extend our user control , one way which i thought would be useful is to add shortcut to frequently used folders, so you don't have to go through the whole tree structure. the most common example is the way "My Documents" is handled by Windows Explorer, though "My documents" actually resides in "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents" but the windows explorer gives us a shortcut to go there directly. So keeping this in mind , i have extended the ExplorerTree so that user can add/remove shortcuts to frequently used folders as shown below

The Code behind : Add shortcuts for frequently used folders

            
private void AddFolderNode(string name, string path)
{

    try
    {
        TreeNode nodemyC = new TreeNode();
    
        nodemyC.Tag = path;
        nodemyC.Text = name;

        nodemyC.ImageIndex = 18;
        nodemyC.SelectedImageIndex = 18;

        TreeNodeRootNode.Nodes.Add(nodemyC); 

        try
        {
            //add dirs under drive
            if (Directory.Exists (path))
            {
                foreach(string dir in Directory.GetDirectories(path))
                {
                    TreeNode node = new TreeNode();
                    node.Tag = dir;
                    node.Text = dir.Substring(dir.LastIndexOf(@"\") + 1);
                    node.ImageIndex = 1;
                    nodemyC.Nodes.Add(node);
                }
            }
            
            
        }
        catch(Exception ex)    //error just add blank dir
        {
            MessageBox.Show ("Error while Filling the Explorer:" + 
                             ex.Message );
        }
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show (e.Message);  
    }
}

In Action: ExplorerTree control in a Test application

With Visual Basic FileListBox

Acknowledgement

Thanks to Rob Manderson for his article on porting the NetResource class in C sharp here http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/csenumnetworkresources.asp and also all those authors who have contributed for code project whose ideas knowingly or unknowingly, directly or indirectly have influenced me to write this article.

Article History

  • June 25, 2006: First published.
  • July 20, 2006: Bug fixed as mentioned by Lyle M, thanks
  • August 11, 2006: Bug fixes mentioned by Doncp and pcxp, thanks
  • August 11, 2006: Features added for customizable interface, without toolbar amd addressbar
  • Dec 14, 2006: Fixed and updated with all the requested features (see comments below) thanks to psxp, evan stein and otopia and BigfootIndy2k6 for there comments
  • Mar 15, 2007: Fixed the bug mentioned by scorpion_pgm82

And thanks

For coming so far! I hope you find this useful, and give me a vote/comment if you do and take care.

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GeneralManually typed directory gives errormemberjm3328 May '08 - 12:23 
Great control. One bug though, when I type in an invalid directory path in the address bar it throws an "object reference not set" error after entering return or clicking the green arrow button.
 
Thanks,
Joe
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GeneralMy Network Places not working in Vista and partially in XP, fully only under Win2000[modified]memberionutzu4 May '08 - 0:51 
I've just tested your control and it's My Network Places item isn't working properly ... I mean, it displays Entire Network and then the three classic categories (which by the way are no longer shown in the Explorer included in Vista) such as "Microsoft Windows Network", "Terminal Services" and "Web Client" but further down the tree nothing, no + sign in front of any, just as if it would be a final folder. Same thing happens in XP only that it also shows the workgroup and the computers, but not their shares. The only OS where it all works is Windows 2000.
Oh and they all work in the classic Windows Explorer.
Please help with a solution to this problem. Sigh | :sigh:
 
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GeneralWindows Explorer is now a part of FREE software ToeTagmvpQuartz.2 Mar '08 - 15:43 
I got an email from the author Corey McKenzie
The program is called ToeTag and the URL is http://www.audiotoetag.com.
 
so check it out
 

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QuestionFolders don't update correctly if the files are changed outside of the explorer tree..memberflacoman9117 Nov '07 - 17:22 
The explorer tree kept adding the folders to the tree if any folder is deleted or added because of the following line:
 
if (dirList.Length == parentNode.Nodes.Count)
 
so once you delete a folder outside of the app, it would keep adding the folders.
also if you rename a folder, it isnt reflected in the tree.
 

 
I made some mods, I use Generics to store names and to do comparisons.
 

private void GetDirectories(TreeNode parentNode)
{
// added after suggestion
string[] dirList;
 
dirList =   Directory.GetDirectories(parentNode.Tag.ToString());
Array.Sort(dirList);
 
//check if dir already exists in case click same //dir twice              
 
List<String> currentdirNamelist = new List<string>();
 
//need to build a list of dir names to make sure //they are the same.
foreach (string s in dirList)
{
                     DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(s);
                        currentdirNamelist.Add(di.Name);
                  }
 
                  //getcurrent list of child nodes from parent nodes.
 
                  List<String> currentdirNodelist = new List<string>();
                  foreach (TreeNode n in parentNode.Nodes)
                  {
                        currentdirNodelist.Add(n.Text);
                  }
                  //old code
               //if (dirList.Length == parentNode.Nodes.Count)
                  // this is a staight list comparison.
                  if (currentdirNamelist == currentdirNodelist)
                        return;
           
               //add each dir in selected dir
               for (int i = 0; i < dirList.Length; i++)
               {                 
                        DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(dirList[i]);                 
                        if (!currentdirNodelist.Contains(di.Name))
                        {
                              node = new TreeNode();
                              node.Tag = dirList[i]; //store path in tag
                              node.Text = dirList[i].Substring(dirList[i].LastIndexOf(@"\") + 1);
                              node.ImageIndex = 1;
                              parentNode.Nodes.Add(node);
                        }
               }
 

                  // only update if its not one of the special folders..
                  if ((parentNode.Text != "Desktop") && (parentNode.Text != "My Documents") && (parentNode.Text != "My Computer")
                        && (parentNode.Text != "Microsoft Windows Network") && (parentNode.Text != "My Network Places"))
                  {
                       
                        List<TreeNode> removenodelist = new List<TreeNode>();
                        foreach (TreeNode n in parentNode.Nodes)
                        {
                              if (!currentdirNamelist.Contains(n.Text))
                                    removenodelist.Add(n);
                        }
 
                        foreach (TreeNode n in removenodelist)                       
                              parentNode.Nodes.Remove(n);
                       
                        List<TreeNode> listToSort = new List<TreeNode>();
 
                        foreach (TreeNode n in parentNode.Nodes)                       
                              listToSort.Add(n);
                       
 
                        listToSort.Sort(nameComparison);
                        parentNode.Nodes.Clear();
 
                        foreach (TreeNode n in listToSort)
                              parentNode.Nodes.Add(n);
 
                  }
// old code
//               bool check = false;
//
//               //add each dir in selected dir
//               foreach(string dir in Directory.GetDirectories(parentNode.Tag.ToString()))
//               {
//                    check = false;
//
//                    //check if dir already exists in case click same dir twice
//                    if(Directory.GetDirectories(parentNode.Tag.ToString()).Length == parentNode.Nodes.Count)
//                         check = true;
//
//                    if(!check)     //if not there add
//                    {
//                         node = new TreeNode();
//                         node.Tag = dir;     //store path in tag
//                         node.Text = dir.Substring(dir.LastIndexOf(@"\") + 1);
//                         node.ImageIndex = 1;
//                         parentNode.Nodes.Add(node);
//                    }
//               }
              
          }
 
here is the comparison delegate   I created to resort the tree nodes..
 
static int nameComparison(TreeNode x, TreeNode y)
{
            return x.Text.CompareTo(y.Text);
}
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GeneralRe: Folders don't update correctly if the files are changed outside of the explorer tree..memberpoirelotto13 Feb '08 - 3:26 
Thank you for your post that answer my problem.
but it seems to not working.
I would like that the component refresh automaticaly when a new folder is created or when I use an "update" method.
Is it possible? how to do that?
Thanks
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GeneralRe: Folders don't update correctly if the files are changed outside of the explorer tree..memberflacoman9113 Feb '08 - 3:54 
Hi,
 
the problem that the code I posted fixes when the folders are renamed within windows explorer, and not your application.
When you update a folder name, and then attempt to close or open a node in the component, it does not update correctly. The fix I posted corrects the problem, but you still have to manually open and close a node or call the update function.
 
From what I guess, the only way you can get the explorer tree to automatically update, is to attach a
FileSystemWatcher to the file system and then have it call the update function.
 
If you look at my earlier posting, I asked if the author had any intention of adding that functionality.
 
hope this helps.
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Questionany thoughts on adding a file system watcher?memberflacoman9110 Nov '07 - 7:23 
Is it possible for this control to have a file system watcher to watch when a folder is added or remove to automatically update itself?
 
If a user does something outside of this tree (i.e. using windows explorer), the tree doesnt know until it is manually refreshed.
 

Thanks for the great work! Its a great component.
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Generalfiring an event on a vb.net form hosting the control. [modified]memberGreg Hazzard29 Mar '07 - 6:57 
I have included the control on a vb.net windows form.
When I click on the treeview control on the vb.net form, I would like to be able to access the updated path (txtPath) within the vb.net code.
I can access this when clicking on a control on the vb.net form,
eg; Dim var = Me.ExplorerTree1.txtPath.Text
 
I would like to call into the vb.net form with the value as per;
private void explorerTree2_PathChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
fileListBox1.Path = explorerTree2.SelectedPath;

}
 
how could my vb.net form be notified of this pathchanged event?
The fileListBox1.Path is assigned this value because it is on the same form as the Treeview control.
Of course I can access the control like this;
Imports WindowsExplorer.ExplorerTree
Public Class frmQuickFiles
Protected WithEvents ctlExplorer As WindowsExplorer.ExplorerTree
Me.ctlExplorer.txtPath_TextChanged()
but I want an event within the c# user control (which resides in a different project in my Visual Studio 2005 solution) to fire and call a vb.net function
A delegate? Some function on the vb.net form whose handle is passed into the control so that when the pathchanged event gets fired, the function in the vb.net code is also called?
 
Does my question make sense? thanks, -greg
 

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GeneralPersisting Shortcutsmemberyesildal15 Mar '07 - 8:42 
Thanks for the great control, I haven't used the control in an application yet, but I think having a way to persist/restore the user created shortcuts would be great. If I use it in an application and if my user creates shortcuts, from the "Expected Behaviour" point of view, the user will expect his/her shortcuts to appear again when he/she closes and relaunches the application. It wouldn't make sense having to recreate the shortcuts each time the user launches the application.
 
Having said that, I don't think this is the responsibility of this control to do this automatically. Maybe just having a way to export those shortcuts into an xml file and a way to load back from an xml file. If not, then even just the ability to access to/create the shortcuts programmatically (Probably you can do it right now; but I mean in a more convenient fashion maybe with just one function call etc.)
 
Thanks and congratulations for this wonderful work.
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GeneralFolders SHown Twice on Desktopmemberscorpion_pgm827 Mar '07 - 22:56 
Hi,
 
Thanks for the very useful Control..
HOwever, there is a small bug....
Say there is a folder "Test" on the Desktop.....Besides the "MyComputer", "MyDocuments" folder.... THis Test folder appears twice on the desktop......HOw do i solve this? Any help would be appreciated....
 
I will be using this control in my CSharp project...
 
thanks once again..
 
Scorpion_pgm
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