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Don't reinvent the wheel! Assuming an hourly developer rate of USD 75, the cost of a 1-developer license can be recovered in just under 2 hours. Is it possible for your company to develop such full-featured, customizable and thoroughly tested components in 2 hours? As a business, you need to save every minute of every hour and FileView will help your company do just that. See the value for money yourself and increase ROI for your company.

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I had an explorer clone running in less than 5 minutes..They have made it as simple as some drop of components!

- John Spano, devCity.Net
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I know you probably only get emails when people have problems, so I want to make sure that I take the time to tell you how much I love this product and how much it has enhanced my web-based application."

- Alan Tepper, TepperWare Computer Solutions

By using your components we were able to cut our time to add this feature from weeks down to hours, it was just that easy (we may have not been able to add this functionality at all within the timeframe we had given ourselves)! We tried other components from other companies and we spent more time trying to get them to add the basic features we needed when your components had every feature we needed; easy synchronization of the combobox and fileview, Vista folder thumbnail support (a definite plus for showing previews of items in the folders), and more, which we continue to find useful and implement in future versions of our products. If you're a software developer, these
components are no-brainer"

- John Rennemeyer, MuvEnum, LLC

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Windows Explorer Like File Browser Control Available Editions: .Net WPF ActiveX

Add a Windows Explorer like listview to your application, showing all the files and folders exactly like Windows Explorer - features Details/Report View, Thumbnail View, Group View, Icon View, List View, icons, contextmenus, dragdrop, renaming, overlay icons, non-filesystem items, default key-handling, infotips and renaming.

Drop-In Control Can Be Put Right Inside Your Own Forms/Dialogs

Stop using the modal, inflexible and clumsy file and folder browser components and controls. A standard, non-modal file & folder browsing/selection UI experience right inside your own form / dialog is something that your users will appreciate.

Powerful, Extensible and Customizable

Advanced Filtering - pattern based or via code
Multi-State Check Boxes
Supports Custom Items (eg : database records) in addition to standard shell items (files, folders, UNC locations, printers, etc)
Enable / Disable Specific Functionality such as context menus, drag-drop, renaming, infotips, etc for all files/folders or individual files/folders.
Extend / Override Default Functionality - Add custom context menu items, extend default drag-drop actions, replace default thumbnails, icons, infotips, overlayicons, displaynames and more!

Create a Windows Explorer clone in seconds!

When combined with FolderView and ShComboBox, you can recreate an entire Windows Explorer Shell Browser UI right inside your form or dialog.

A Windows Explorer Clone Developed Using FileView+FolderView+ShComboBox

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Features

Complete Windows Explorer look, feel and behavior

2-line integration with FolderView and ShComboBox brings complete Windows Explorer functionality to your application.
Identical support for various display modes - Large Icon, Small Icon, Details/Report View.
Complete Thumbnail View support similar to Windows Explorer.
Complete Group View support similar to Windows Explorer.
Identical displaynames, icons and overlay icons shown for files/folders.
Identical dragdrop functionality.
Identical renaming functionality.
Identical display of infotips for files/folders.
Identical display of contextmenus ( including 'Send To' and any other submenus) for files/folders.
Identical default-key handling functionality ( e.g. Alt-Enter shows the properties dialog box)
Identical background context menu functionality when the empty background area is right-clicked.
Powerful AutoUpdate functionality refreshes FileView automatically when files/folders are renamed, deleted or created.

Advanced customization features

Pattern-based filtering of files/folders ( e.g. : "*.bmp;*.jpg" ) or advanced custom filtering using a simple event.
Display of multi-state checkboxes next to each file/folder.
Add custom items ( i.e. items not belonging to the shell ).
Add developer defined columns in 'Details Mode'.
Hide standard columns in 'Details Mode'.
Change default thumbnails for items in Thumbnail View.
Change default displaynames for files/folders.
Change default icons for files/folders.
Change default overlay icons such as shortcut or network share overlay icon.
Show/Hide multi-state checkboxes on a per-file/folder basis.
Add custom menuitems in the default shell contextmenus of files/folders.
Change default infotips for files/folders.
Advanced customization of dragdrop functionality including the ability to prevent or change drop actions, and access and put new data during dragdrop.
Change default column text (Name. Size, Type, Date Modified, etc) for files/folders in 'Details Mode'.
Change default sorting behavior using developer defined sorting procedure.
Total appearance control by changing backcolor, forecolor, text fonts and other listview properties.

Advanced behavior control

Prevent display of contextmenus for all files/folders using a simple property or on a per-file/folder basis using an event.
Prevent dragdrop for all files/folders using a simple property or on a per-file/folder basis using an event.
Allow/disallow renaming for all files/folders using a simple property or on a per-file/folder basis using an event.
Allow/disallow selection for all files/folders using a simple property or on a per-file/folder basis using an event.
Change default drag actions during dragdrop ( e.g. from Copy To Move )
Control whether folders can be viewed or files executed for all files/folders using simple properties or on a per-file/folder basis using events.
Control checking/unchecking on a per-file/folder basis.
Prevent execution of default shell commands ( e.g. Open, Cut, Properties, etc. in response to keystrokes or through the context menu) for all files/folders using a property or on a per-file/folder basis using an event.
Show/hide hidden files/folders using a simple property.
Show/hide virtual files/folders ( e.g. Control Panel ) using a simple property.

Simple but powerful programming model

Enumerate all files/folders shown in FileView.
Execute shell commands ( e.g. Cut, Delete, etc ) on files/folders.
Programmatically open files with their associated applications.
Access complete information of a file/folder including its displayname, fullpath, checkstate, selection state and attributes like whether it is a shortcut, shared, hidden, readonly, file and folder.
Associate developer defined data with each file/folder.

Supported Tools

.Net / WPF Edition
Windows Forms (WinForms), WPF and ASP.Net applications, libaries and console apps developed using C#, VB.Net, Managed C++, J# and many others .Net languages in Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2002. Also supports the Express editions of the above IDEs.

ActiveX Edition
MFC/ATL/C++ apps in Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2002, Visual C++ 6.0.
VB in Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6).
VBA in Microsoft Office (Access/ Word/ Excel) Versions 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010 and AutoCAD.
HTML/ASP, Internet Explorer, Visual Interdev.
Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, dBase, RealBasic and many others

Supported OS

Supports 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of:
Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows NT

Why Select Our Products ?

Easy To Deploy

The control has no additional dependencies and is extremely easy to deploy with your application.

Focus On Quality And Customer Requirements

Apart from our own research and development, the product is also shaped by customer feedback and requirements. Our product is used in real world settings requiring industrial strength quality and rock solid performance.

Trusted By Organizations Round The World

The product is used by organizations large and small from all over the globe including Siemens, BP, Blizzard, Winzip and many others.

Reviewed By Industry & Media

Our products have received rave reviews from renowned developers and prestigious developer magazines.

No runtime fees or royalties

No runtime fees or royalties are involved when you distribute our controls with your applications.

International Language Translations Available

Fully supports Unicode and translations in various languages such as Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Norwegian, Japanese and Korean are available.

Comprehensive documentation

Comes with comprehensive and easy-to-understand documentation.

Numerous samples

Comes with many samples in various programming languages which demonstrate much of the basic and advanced features and functionality of FileView.

Support and Upgrade Subscription

The Support and Upgrade Subscription entitles you to free upgrades to all minor and major version updates and get prompt technical support on priority basis.

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