FolderView Control 2009  Available in    

Windows Explorer Like Folder Browser Control

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

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!

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Features

Complete Windows Explorer look, feel and behavior

• 2-line integration with FileView and ShComboBox brings complete Windows Explorer functionality to your application.
• Identical displaynames, icons and overlay icons.
• Identical dragdrop functionality.
• Identical renaming functionality.
• Identical display of infotips.
• Identical contextmenus ( including 'Send To' and any other submenus).
• Identical default-key handling functionality ( e.g. Alt-Enter shows the properties dialog box).
• Vista look and feel when running on Windows Vista
• Powerful AutoUpdate functionality refreshes FolderView automatically when files/folders are renamed, deleted or created.
• Includes ready-to-use FolderBrowserDialog replacement which uses the FolderView control. No code changes required; way more features.

Advanced customization features

• Developer controlled filtering of folders and files( using a simple event )
• Display multi-state checkboxes next to each folder or file.
• Display multiple root nodes instead of a single 'Desktop' root node.
• Set any folder - not just the Desktop - as the root.
• Display files as well as folders.
• Add custom items ( i.e. items not belonging to the shell ).
• Change default displaynames of folders and files.
• Change default icons and overlay icons of folders and files.
• Add custom menuitems in the default shell contextmenus of folders and files.
• Change default infotips of folders and files.
• Advanced customization of dragdrop functionality including the ability to prevent or change drop actions, and access and put new data during dragdrop.
• Show/Hide multi-state checkboxes on a per-folder basis.
• Total appearance control by changing backcolor, forecolor, text fonts and other treeview properties.

Advanced behavior control

• Prevent display of contextmenus for all folders using a simple property or on a per-folder basis using an event.
• Prevent dragdrop for all folders using a simple property or on a per-folder basis using an event.
• Allow/disallow renaming for all folders using a simple property or on a per-folder basis using an event.
• Allow/disallow selection for all folders using a simple property or on a per-folder basis using an event.
• Allow/disallow expanding/collapsing on a per-folder basis using an event.
• Change default drag actions during dragdrop (e.g. from Copy To Move)
• Control checking/unchecking on a per-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 folders using a simple property or on a per-folder basis using an event.
• Show/hide hidden folders using a simple property.
• Show/hide virtual folders ( e.g. Control Panel ) using a simple property.

Simple but powerful programming model

• Enumerate all folders shown in FolderView.
• Enumerate all folders according to folder hierarchy structure.
• Execute shell commands ( e.g. Cut, Delete, etc ) on folders.
• Programmatically navigate the folder hierarchy.
• 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 folder/file
  

Supported Tools

   
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 2008, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2002. Also supports the Express editions of the above IDEs.

MFC/ATL/C++ apps in 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 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 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows NT

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