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FilesystemTree Control in .NET

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A FilesystemTree view control in VB.NET. Developed with VS.NET, using the system.management namespace

The Control

FilesystemTree is a control which will read the system resources and display a tree from which a user can navigate to a file or a folder...

Programmers can use this control as part of their applications to allow users to navigate to a folderList or fileSystemTree structure, and get back the file/folder path that the user has selected.

The Code

The code is self-explanatory. Briefly, it has a TreeView control linked to an ImageList control. The ImageList control is for the TreeView to pick its icons from. To view the images in the ImageList control, open properties of the ImageList control and click on the ellipsis (...) next to the images property.

Using system.management namespace in .NET, the TreeView is filled with the resources/drives available on the system and as the user expands a node, sub-nodes are populated in a more user-friendly way. The textbox above the TreeView control is populated with the user's selection of a file/folder. The textbox is disabled... it's only for viewing. The user's selection can also be accessed by using filesystemtree1.pathselected (if filesystemtree1 is an instance of the control on an application).

Using the Code

Add the control to the project. If you are using VS.NET, right click on the toolbox in VS.NET -> Customize -> browse to the control's DLL and select. This will get the control on the toolbox. Drag and drop the control on to your application. If the control's instance on your application is called FilesystemTree1, use the code below, to get the user's selection.

C#
//get the user's selection.
FileSystemTree1.pathselected
//

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Hello All,

I'm a student using version 1.1 of VB .NET.

I was trying to make a freeware image viewer similar to older, leaner versions of ACDSee.

I have a drive/folder navigation listbox on the left side. Whenever the user navigates into a directory that contains images a list box on the right side displays a thumbnail of each image.

I started with 36 images and everything worked fairly well, although I cannot scroll through the thumbnails yet. I added another 36 images and I get an out of memory exception when I navigate into my image directory. With 72 thumbnails??? I have 1 gig of ram and this just doesn't seem right, even if the full image sizes are stored into memory. I know I've open 1500+ thumbnails in ACVDSee, so I'm far short in creating a similar program.

It also takes 3-4 seconds to make this simple check for 4 image extensions and to create and display a thumbnail for each found.. limited to 40 or so images before the dynamic memory is exhausted. I thought XP handled memory in a far more efficient way that utilizes the ram better.

Here is the code that throws the exception on approximately the 40th thumbnail created:
(from Mastering Visual Basic .NET; Evangelos Petroutsos)

===========================================================================
Private Sub ThumbNails()

Dim file As String
Dim FI As FileInfo
Dim PBox As PictureBox
Dim img As Image
Dim Left As Integer = 10
Dim Right As Integer = 40
Dim ctrl As Integer
Dim Top As Integer = 10

'Remove All PictureBox controls on the form:
For ctrl = (lst2.Controls.Count - 1) To 0 Step -1
lst2.Controls.Remove(lst2.Controls(ctrl))
Next

For Each file In Directory.GetFiles(mstrCurrentPath)

FI = New FileInfo(file)

If FI.Extension = ".gif" Or FI.Extension = ".jpg" Or FI.Extension = ".bmp" Or _
FI.Extension = ".png" Then

Try
img = Image.FromFile(FI.FullName)
FN = FI.FullName
PBox = New PictureBox
PBox.Image = img.GetThumbnailImage(100, 100, Nothing, Nothing)
If Left > 500 Then
Left = 10
Top = Top + 110
End If

PBox.Left = Left
PBox.Top = Top
PBox.Width = 100
PBox.Height = 100

PBox.Visible = True
PBox.Tag = FI.FullName

AddHandler PBox.Click, New System.EventHandler (AddressOf OpenImage)
Left += 110
lst2.Items.Add(PBox)
Catch
lst1.Items.Add(FI.FullName).ToString()
End Try
End If

FI = Nothing 'Trying to free dynamic mem:
PBox = Nothing

Next
End Sub
===========================================================================

I appreciate any comments or suggestions that you might have to help me along in this learning project.
GeneralRe: VB .NET 1.1 - Out Of Memory Exception Pin
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