FolderView.Net 2009

FolderView.Net 2009 is a useful tool which is able to provide a familiar yet powerful 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 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 and dragdrop control and customization of default contextmenus, displaynames, icons and infotips When combined with FileView and ShComboBox controls, it recreates the entire Windows Explorer UI in your app. FolderView.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. FolderView.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. The new version brings plenty of new features and functionality, new properties, methods and events and some bugfixes.

Why choose this product?

• Excellent ROI/Value For Money : Save Time and Money: 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 a full-featured, customizable and thoroughly tested product in 2 hours? As a business, you need to save every minute of every hour and FolderView will help your company do just that. See the value for money yourself and increase ROI for your company.
• Don't Reinvent The Wheel! Leverage the publisher's R&D and Domain Expertise: FolderView has been shaped by extensive R&D and domain expertise and the feedback of thousands of customers just like you. Buying FolderView means you will be using a component with industrial strength quality and rock solid performance in your applications.
• Competent and Prompt Customer Support: Prompt technical support is provided via email
• More Proof of Quality
• No runtime fees or royalties: No runtime fees or royalties are involved when you distribute our products with your applications.

Major Features:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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

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