FileView.Net 2009

FileView.Net 2009 is a useful tool which offers a drop-in Windows Explorer-like listview UI to your application. It supplies a familiar yet powerful file/folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to. It offers complete support for Thumbnail, Details and GroupView, AutoUpdate, dragdrop, icons, contextmenus, non-filesystem items, default key-handling, infotips and renaming. It features powerful behavior control and customization functionality that takes it miles ahead of Windows Explorer by adding features like filtering, checkboxes, custom items, custom columns and dragdrop control and customization of default contextmenus, displaynames, icons and infotips.

When combined with FolderView and ShComboBox controls, it recreates the entire Windows Explorer UI in your app. FileView.Net is written in 100% managed code for speed and efficiency and completely supports a variety of IDEs and tools including Visual Studio 2005/.Net 2.0. FileView.Net has a royalty-free redistribution license; it has no external dependencies which allows ease of redistribution and it comes with comprehensive documentation and numerous samples to quickly get you started. The new version offers a substantial improvement in speed and efficiency and offers vastly improved support for a variety of IDEs and tools including complete support for Visual Studio 2005/.Net 2.0.

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Major Features:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Enhancements: Support for additional IDEs and New features.

Requirements:

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